Stem Cells and Gene Therapy

Stem Cells and Gene Therapy Researchers take a second look at using stem cells to treat HIV By Bob Grant Related Articles 5 HIV Treatment Strategies A piggyback attack: Using the common cold to deliver an HIV vaccine The best offense? CCR5 inhibitors, with one now on the market, suggest it may be a good defense Solving the viral spike: Can structural biology find a chink in HIV's armor? Reconstructing early HIV: The search for immunogens d

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Stem cells enjoyed a short run as potential gene therapy vehicles in the 1990s. Most approaches suffered, however, from low expression levels and low transduction efficiencies in target cells. Though researchers had developed a rich array of anti-HIV genes, including antisense and virion fusion inhibitors, RNA decoys, and short hairpin RNAs, their in vitro effectiveness did not translate into significant therapeutic effects in patients.

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Bob Grant
From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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