adeno associated viruses การใช้

• Though most of the many trials of gene therapy have been disappointing, Avigen is using a new and more promising vector called adeno associated virus.
• The adeno associated virus used by High and Kay is not as provocative to the immune system as adenovirus and the cells it infects survive much longer.
• Though most of the many trials of gene therapy have been disappointing so far, Avigen is using a new and more promising vector called adeno associated virus.
• The team led by Kay and High used a different virus, adeno associated virus, which has very few genes of its own and depends on adenovirus to reproduce itself.
• The treatment may be working better in people than it did in animals, she said, because the adeno associated virus is a human virus and may be more active in its natural host.