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Gene therapy
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Publication Date
c2005
Language
English
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Understanding and manipulating genes: understanding heredity / George W. Burns
From the discovery of genes to the mapping of genomes / Dinshaw Dadachanji
Discovering the structure of DNA / James D. Watson, interviewed by John Rennie
An introduction to gene therapy / David Petechuk
The road to success: the first human gene therapy trial / Jeff Lyon and Peter Gorner
The first genuine success / W. French Anderson, interviewed by Kathleen McAuliffe
Injecting genes to curb prostate cancer / Kambra McConnel
Swapping out bad genes to prevent mitochondrial disease / Nell Boyce
Helping children born without immunity / Steve Connor
Treating deafness with gene therapy / Michael Hoffman
A new tactic to fight Parkinson's Disease / Michael Kaplitt and Theodore Friedmann, interviewed by Ira Flatow
Hope for victims of Lou Gehrig's Disease / Carey Goldberg
The road turns bumpy: gene therapy research: juggling business and science / Joshua Kurlantzick
A gene therapy trial ends in death and scandal / Debra Nelson and Rick Weiss
When gene therapy kills: a father's grief / Paul Gelsinger, interviewed by Stone Phillips
Unreliable viruses stall gene therapy research / Eliot Marshall
Improving the safety of gene therapy trials / Jay P. Siegel
Some gene therapy trials resume while others remain frozen / Raja Mishra
A heart treatment revives hopes for gene therapy / Marilynn Marchione
The ethics of gene therapy: ethical issues surrounding gene therapy / Catherine Baker
A legal perspective on genetic ethics / Maxwell J. Mehlman
Playing God: genes and theology / Audrey R. Chapman
Gene therapy's threat to equality / Francis Fukuyama
Gene therapy's contribution toward equality / Gregory Stock.
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9780737719673
9780737719680
9780737719680
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