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A new role for an old actor

Nature Medicine volume 3, pages 1084–1085 (1997)Cite this article

Examining the contribution of the FDA to the development of gene therapeutics.

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  1. Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, 94305–5332, USA

    John A. Wagner

  2. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Bethesda, Maryland, 20852–1448, USA

    Parris Burd

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