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Published online 3 June 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050531-11
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Gene therapy salves sensitive nerves
Deactivated herpes virus delivers pain relief.
Neuropathic pain is a devastating nerve disorder for which medicine has no good cure. But a group of scientists at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have shown the pain can be eased by a gene transfer technique, in rats at least.
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