The Scientist Staff | Aug 30, 1998 | 3 min read
Inder Verma L. Naldini, U. Blomer, P. Gallay, D. Ory, R. Mulligan, F.H. Gage, I.M. Verma, D. Trono, "In Vivo Gene Delivery and Stable Transduction of Nondividing Cells by a Lentiviral Vector," Science, 272:263-7, 1996. (Cited in more than 185 papers since publication) Comments by Inder M. Verma, American Cancer Society professor of molecular biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif. In the world of gene therapy, there's a fine line between friend and foe. HIV at