AAV-Mediated Inclusion Formation as a Novel Gene Therapy Strategy for ALS Ole Isacson, Ph.D., McLean Hospital. Dr. Isacson is a CDMRP-funded investigator supported by the DoD Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research Program (ALSRP) Continue reading
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Imaging Nanoparticles and Validation of Specificity in In-Vivo Animal Models – Video
Imaging Nanoparticles and Validation of Specificity in In-Vivo Animal Models New nanoparticles and nanotechnology designed for medical applications require rigorous evaluation both in vitro and in vivo. The purpose of many of these nanoparticles is to improve the treatment of disease through improved specificity, delivery of novel therapeutics, improved delivery of existing therapeutics, or delivery of novel combinations of therapeutics. In other cases, the goal of the nanoparticle may be improved detection or stratification of a disease Continue reading
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Observed While Falling is the account of the Word-Image Novel Ah Pook Is Here, an idea conceived by writer WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS and artist MALCOLM MC NEILL in London in 1970, abandoned after seven years, lost for twenty-five, then rediscovered and published four decades after it began. Continue reading
European regulators back first gene therapy drug
LONDON (Reuters) – European regulators have recommended approval of the Western world's first gene therapy drug — after rejecting it on three previous occasions — in a significant advance for the novel medical technology. More than 20 years since the first experiments with the ground-breaking method for fixing faulty genes, scientists and drug companies are still struggling to apply gene … Continue reading
Book Review: I Burn Paris
I Burn Paris, a novel by the Polish Futurist and communist Bruno Jasieski (1901-38), is a strange, fascinating and at times rambling adventure in which the reader is asked not so much to suspend her disbelief as to hang it from the nearest electrical wire and watch the sparks fly. Soren A. Gauger and Marcin Piekoszewski’s translation is the first time I Burn Paris has been brought into English and it thus fills a void for scholars and lovers of Polish literature and Futurism; this is a significant work from one of the movement’s most outspoken and tragic characters. Continue reading