Is pituitary gene therapy realistic?

Gene therapy for pituitary tumors.

Pituitary tumors are the most common primary intracranial neoplasms. Although most pituitary tumors are considered typically benign, others can cause severe and progressive disease. The principal aims of pituitary tumor treatment are the elimination or reduction of the tumor mass, normalization of hormone secretion and preservation of remaining pituitary function. In spite of major advances in ...

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Realistic Rescheduling: Is It Achievable?

Predictive scheduling methodologies are aimed at addressing the generation of production agendas, while assuming that all activities and resources are given and there is no uncertainty in their behavior. However, experience demonstrates that there are intrinsically uncertain parameters and that industrial environments frequently face unexpected events that force schedulers to update agendas ove...

Is gene therapy a form of eugenics?

If, as I believe, gene therapy is in principle ethically sound except for its possible connection with eugenics then there are two obvious ways of giving a simple and straightforward answer to a question such as this. The first is to say "yes it is, and so what?" The second is to say "no it isn't so we shouldn't worry". If we accept the first of the above definitions we might well be inclined t...

Is gene therapy for hypertension possible?

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