Word: marisco
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...This is the first successful demonstration of a functional intra-cellular antibody," Marisco said. "It represents a significant technological breakthrough...to interfere with traditional functions through traditional gene therapy...
While side effects could arise during further testing, Marisco said, the antibodies had no toxic effect on healthy cells. "These experiments were done in human cells and the cultures," he said. "The next step will be to test this on human blood cells...
...Marisco said his research team is currently conducting such tests. If these succeed, he said, they will probably apply to the Food and Drug Administration for permission to conduct small clinical trials of the therapy...
...Though Marisco said he did not wish to be "near-sighted" about the possibilities of the treatment, he said he did not foresee it as acting as a vaccine...
...Marisco emphasized that this strategy is not being seen as a cure for AIDS or any other disease...