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Nature Reviews Genetics 4, 346-358 (May 2003) | doi:10.1038/nrg1066

Progress and problems with the use of viral vectors for gene therapy

Clare E. Thomas1, Anja Ehrhardt1 & Mark A. Kay1  About the authors

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Gene therapy has a history of controversy. Encouraging results are starting to emerge from the clinic, but questions are still being asked about the safety of this new molecular medicine. With the development of a leukaemia-like syndrome in two of the small number of patients that have been cured of a disease by gene therapy, it is timely to contemplate how far this technology has come, and how far it still has to go.

Author affiliations

  1. Departments of Pediatrics and Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

Correspondence to: Mark A. Kay1 Email: markay@stanford.edu

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