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Article: Gene courier targets skin-tumor cells. (liposomes used to carry therapeutic genes)
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- Science News
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- December 4, 1993
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Researchers are reporting another first in the annals of gene therapy: the use of fat-like molecules to deliver DNA with cancer-killing potential into the tumors of people with skin cancer. These preliminary results take scientists one step closer to gene therapy for cancer, they contend.
Last October, genetic engineers used a crippled virus to deliver a therapeutic gene to the nasal cells of three people with the inherited illness cystic fibrosis (SN: 10/23/93, p.260). Some scientists still worry that such altered viruses may cause disease in humans.
Gary J. Nabel, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher at the University of Michigan Medical Center ...