Gene therapy monkey business

Monkey Business

Everyday work involves communicating, coordinating and collaborating with others. In many cases employees are situated in geographically distributed offices, and hence lack a general sense of their co-workers’ current activities and availability. At present, many companies invest money in communication systems that enable formal interactions, such as video conferencing. There are however few te...

Monkey business in the aquarium

tion of the object wavefunction in amplitude and phase from the measured data. However, before we can make a measurement of a quantum state we have to prepare that state. In the case of the caesium atom this job was done by the first object pulse. Can we prepare any desired state, that is, a target state? This is an issue that arises in many disciplines — ranging from physical chemistry, throug...

ژن درمانی Gene Therapy

Center for fetal monkey gene transfer for heart, lung, and blood diseases: an NHLBI resource for the gene therapy community.

The goals of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Center for Fetal Monkey Gene Transfer for Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases are to conduct gene transfer studies in monkeys to evaluate safety and efficiency; and to provide NHLBI-supported investigators with expertise, resources, and services to actively pursue gene transfer approaches in monkeys in their research programs. NHLBI...

Recent Advances in Hemophilia Gene Therapy

Heterogeneous loss of function mutations at F8 and F9 genes causes X-linked recessive bleeding disorders, hemophilia A (HA) and hemophilia B (HB), respectively. HA is clinically indistinguishable from HB and accounts for more than 80% of hemophilia cases; the former affects 1/5000 and the latter 1/25000 male births worldwide. In Iran, it is estimated that around 4300 HA and 900 HB patients are ...