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Gene therapy has been controversial since Jesse Gelsinger, an 18-year-old who suffered from a liver disease, died in a University of Pennsylvania experiment which used viral vectors to introduce genes last year.
The controversy generated by the discovery of the genetically modified corn put both the Japanese and American governments under enormous market pressure to tighten controls on GM organisms. Japan needs 16 million tons of corn a year to satisfy demand, and imports 95 percent of its supply from the United...
A one-time threat to public health is terrible; a cyclic recurrence would be far worse. Yet this is just what we face, since the modification of any genome is irreversible. Apart from the fact that GM foods can threaten our health, there exists a greater danger that such genes...
This isn't science fiction. The National Cancer Institute and NASA plan to spend $12 million a year for the next three years to develop nanosensors--devices less than one-thousandth the diameter of a human hair--that will scan the body for the molecular signatures of cancer--the aberrant...
SPEEDING UP THE GENE POOL INVENTORS: GAVIN MACBEATH AND STUART SCHREIBER Sequencing of the human genome may be the greatest breakthrough in human history, but it is just a beginning. To get to the good stuff, like gene therapy and hyperefficient drugs, scientists need to analyze the chemistry of 50...