Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Gene therapy finds its niche

Nature Biotechnology Volume: 29, Pages: 121–128 Year published:(2011)
doi:10.1038/nbt.1769

Cormac Sheridan

Gene therapy is finally poised to make a contribution to the treatment of debilitating, highly penetrant genetic diseases that have proved intractable to other regimens.

ReNeuron and StemCells get green light for neural stem cell trials

Nature Biotechnology Volume: 29,Pages: 95–97 Year published:(2011) doi:10.1038/nbt0211-95

George S Mack

Maybe not as fast as we would like, but progress is being made in stem cell therapies for neurological diseases.