A promising gene therapy trial, derailed by cancerous side effects in a young patient, is set to reboot with the help of next generation gene-transfer vectors.
A promising gene therapy trial, derailed by cancerous side effects in a young patient, is set to reboot with the help of next generation gene-transfer vectors.
Are miRNAs useful for tracking and treating cardiovascular disease?
In discovering their shared ancestry, a distantly related animal geneticist and plant pathologist find a common thread in their work on immune receptors.
Understanding oncogenesis at the molecular level offers the prospect of tailoring treatments much more precisely for patients with advanced cases of this deadliest of skin cancers.
Seventeenth-century Tibet witnessed a blossoming of medical knowledge, including a set of 79 paintings, known as tangkas, that interweaved practical medical knowledge with Buddhist traditions and local lore.
New technologies and mind-sets are required for information delivery in the age of genomics.
| April 1, 2011
Worms As Therapy Re: Bob Grant’s article about worm therapy for autoimmune disease:[1. Bob Grant, “Opening a Can of Worms,” The Scientist, 25:42-47, February 2011.] A minireview by Hanada et al., (Biol Chem, 391:1365-70, 2010) of the RANKL/RANK syst