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Safer conditioning for blood stem cell transplants

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An antibody-based conditioning agent may open the way to wider application of gene therapy with hematopoietic stem cells.

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Figure 1: A comparison of conventional allogeneic HSCT with autologous HSCT using genetically corrected or uncorrected stem cells.

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  1. Alessandro Aiuti and Luigi Naldini are at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget), Milan, Italy and Vita Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.,

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Aiuti, A., Naldini, L. Safer conditioning for blood stem cell transplants. Nat Biotechnol 34, 721–723 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3629

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