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The virus used by Dr. Nathwani's team, known as adeno-associated virus-8, generally stays outside the chromosomes, so it should not present this problem.
NYT > Global Home By NICHOLAS WADE 2011
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The virus used by Dr. Nathwani's team, known as adeno-associated virus-8, generally stays outside the chromosomes, so it should not present this problem.
NYT > Home Page By NICHOLAS WADE 2011
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The virus used by Dr. Nathwani's team, known as adeno-associated virus-8, generally stays outside the chromosomes, so it should not present this problem.
NYT > Home Page By NICHOLAS WADE 2011
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The virus used by Dr. Nathwani's team, known as adeno-associated virus-8, generally stays outside the chromosomes, so it should not present this problem.
NYT > Home Page By NICHOLAS WADE 2011
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The virus used by Dr. Nathwani's team, known as adeno-associated virus-8, generally stays outside the chromosomes, so it should not present this problem.
NYT > Home Page By NICHOLAS WADE 2011
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They take an adeno-associated virus — a virus which is usually present in humans but not known to cause disease — remove most of its genes and patch a shiny, new, properly functioning version of the rpe65 gene into it.
Science Question From a Toddler: What do blind people see? Boing Boing 2009
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I also identified a novel adeno-associated virus, now labelled AAV-5, from my own skin scrapings.
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But newer vectors, such as "adeno-associated virus," are yielding better results with fewer side effects.
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Administered carefully, adeno-associated virus can insert the IGF-1 gene into any desired muscle or group of muscles, without unnecessarily infecting the rest of the body.
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Unfortunately, the missing gene is too large to package into the preferred vector, adeno-associated virus, which readily infects muscle and has no known harmful effects.
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