Vaccines are one of the most critical medical advancements in human history. This was recently demonstrated with the international coronavirus pandemic. The highly transmissible COVID-19 virus ...
Circumventing the immune response to the vector is a major challenge with all vector types. Viral vectors are the most likely to induce an immune response, especially those, like adenovirus and AAV, ...
This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection of interventions that restore tissues and organs damaged ...
Translating knowledge of genetic disease mechanisms into gene therapies has been slow with limited clinical success. One major reason is that the transfer vectors, which are most often of viral origin ...