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Roth and his team used a non-viral method to introduce factor VIII, the blood clotting protein that type A hemophiliacs lack, into the patients' plasma...
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...
Although there are viral methods of gene therapy completely unlike the kind used on Gelsinger, and each method has its own benefits, the non-viral technique used in the study has several advantages, said Gilbert C. White II, the director of University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill's Hemophilia Diagnostic and Treatment Center...
Perhaps the most surprising thing about the symbol's growth is that, in an age of electronic proliferation, Andre's playground is not the Internet. Instead, it's the old walls, billboards and utility boxes of ordinary physical cities. The viral proliferation usually associated with chain e-mails is instead a visual play of images in three dimensions--a rare phenomenon if only for the simple reason that paths cross much more often electronically than they do across the world. Postering the world to get a message out is, as most student groups have found, much more difficult and erratic...
...members of the viral world evoke as many Stephen King-like notions of horror and human frailty. It's hardly a major killer in the global scheme of things. Even when compared to other flash-in-the-pan outbreaks, Ebola epidemics cannot, by virtue of numbers of people killed, be considered a top concern on the health radar screen...