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A further tension between the DTA and welfare activists arises with their characterizations of welfare recipients.
The four doctors called on the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to suspend efforts to reduce the percentage of caesarean births until the medical community can further monitor and evaluate the births.
But could the same be done directly to cells within the human body? "That's where we hit the wall in the early 1990s," recalls Dr. James Wilson, director of the Institute for Human Gene Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania. One problem was that the body's immune system...
Gene therapists are looking even further ahead. Pennsylvania's Wilson predicts that the next advance will be a mechanism built into the vector to regulate the expression of a therapeutic gene, turning it on or off. "Most diseases and most drugs require modifying the dose," he explains, "but the genes...
In the past six years, neither girl has had a further infusion of her own altered T cells. Both are taking reduced doses of PEG-ADA, and periodic tests confirm that their re-engineered cells are surviving and producing the ADA enzyme.