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Transfer of the utrophin gene.

• Last Edited: 13 Jul 2009
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Prof. George Karpati and his co-workers at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, transferred the entire gene of utrophin with a single injection of an adenovirus vector system into the tibialis a...

Tags: Utrophin gene, tibialis, adenovirus.

Progress in Gene Therapy for DMD: Slipping Full-Length Dystrophin Past the Immune System

• Last Edited: 15 Sep 2009
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The immune system is one of the biggest obstacles to gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), but researchers have devised a new gene therapy method that can largely evade the body̵...

Tags: adenovirus, gene therapy.