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To: nigel bates who wrote (662)11/20/2001 3:19:29 AM
From: Icebrg  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1127
 
This looks very much like the work being done by Vascular Genetics.

EART RESEARCH - Successes of Gene Therapy

By JANE E. ALLEN
{LA]TIMES HEALTH WRITER

November 19 2001

An experimental gene therapy used in critically ill heart patients has shown significant potential for restoring blood flow in clogged cardiac vessels, reducing chest pain and enhancing quality of life. These successes, which have been demonstrated in a handful of small research studies so far, are drawing attention to a technique that appears to stimulate growth of new blood vessels. If the results are duplicated in larger studies, gene therapy may one day become an important tool in the fight against coronary artery disease.

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