Gene Therapy
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GMO Virus for Nicotine Addiction
Posted by ERV on July 10, 2012 I used to think gene therapy was an absurd ‘solution’ for HIV/AIDS. Well, ‘absurd’ is putting it lightly. I thought gene therapy was a perverted solution– Even if it ‘worked’, it would only be available for the richest people in the richest countries, not the millions and millions and millions of individuals living in poverty…
Gene therapy might actually work for HIV-1 infection
Posted by ERV on May 25, 2012 If you had asked me 6 years ago about using gene therapy to fight HIV/AIDS, I would have given you a nice rant about how expensive it is, how non-viable it is in the places that need anti-HIV strategies the most, how dangerous it can be, and I would have been damn offended you even…
Gene therapy for Hemophilia B
Posted by ERV on December 14, 2011 For the millionth time– Viruses are not just pathogens that make us sick. In the modern world, viruses have been domesticated, and are now used to treat/cure diseases. Example #gazillion: Hemophilia B: Adenovirus-Associated Virus Vector-Mediated Gene Transfer in Hemophilia B This study is far from perfect, and of course very preliminary, but still very exciting.…
Oh, Im not a doctor.
Posted by ERV on August 15, 2011 My response: Patient: Are you sure youre a doctor? Me: Oh, Im not a doctor. If you are a regular reader of ERV, one of the Big Ideas I hope you take away from this blog is ‘Viruses are not Bad Guys‘ (more, more, this list isnt exhaustive, Ive written about this a million times).…
Gene therapy and X-linked SCID: Where are they today?
Posted by ERV on August 24, 2010 Yesterdays post got me so annoyed and flabbergasted– I needed to read a nice MLV paper to cheer me up. And nothing cheers me up like using gene therapy on kids with genetic diseases, allowing them to live pretty much normal lives: Efficacy of gene therapy for X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency. Most readers of ERV…
Gene therapy for fighting HIV-1: Using viruses to fight viruses
Posted by ERV on July 21, 2010 Im sure you all remember the guy I wrote about a while back, who had HIV-1 and leukemia. While that is actually pretty common, what wasnt common was his treatment– a bone marrow transplant from a match who happened to lack the CCR5 gene, thus lacked one of the co-receptors HIV-1 needs to infect cells.…