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Biotech / Medical : Unquoted Biotechs

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To: nigel bates who wrote (30)1/15/2002 11:10:12 AM
From: Mike McFarland  Read Replies (1) of 253
 
<the Intronn approach to gene therapy is truly unique>

In Nature Biotech page 32 'Fooling Mother Nature'
Ronald Crystal writes "The strategy of correcting
mutations at the mRNA level is not new, nor is the
specific strategy of trans-splicing. Ribozymes have
been used for this purpose, as have antisense approaches."

I wondered aloud in the club.tgen thread on Yahoo if
AAV could carry the PTMs (they used Ad in the experiments).
And there are the non-viral lipid vectors.
So it seems to me that you come full circle.

I'll be lurking and hoping for remarks from our GT expert.
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