WASHINGTON (AP) -- French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence.
The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn't cause AIDS, and then used it to carry in the healthy new gene....
french scientistsNew gene therapy halts 2 boys' rare brain diseaseHeadlines from the Associated Press Thu, 11/05/2009 - 16:12
Nobel for HIV Discovery Goes to French and HPV to GermanMedPage Today Infectious Disease Mon, 10/06/2008 - 11:28
STOCKHOLM (MedPage Today) -- With echoes of an old scientific feud, two French scientists have been awarded a Nobel Prize for the discovery of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, with no recognition for American Robert Gallo, M.D., who also claimed to have done it. |
