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  • Gene Therapy for HIV

    From Inception to a Possible Cure

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This Brief describes the concept and realization of gene therapy for HIV from the unique historic perspective and insight of two pioneers of the clinical applications of stem cell gene therapy for HIV.Gerhard Bauer applied ribozyme-anti-HIV and other vectors to manufacture clinical grade, HIV-resistant hematopoietic stem cells for the first patients that received stem cell gene therapy for HIV, ... Read more

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  • Immunology

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  • Outer Membrane Vesicles of Bacteria

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a detailed account of the physico-chemical properties and biological functions of the outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) of different pathogenic and non-pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria. It also includes an authentic record of the first systematic study that discovered the mechanism of OMV formation by a pathogen, Vibrio cholerae, and proposed that the process represented a novel ... Read more

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  • Autoimmunity and the Pathogenesis of Diabetes

    Series series Medicine (R0)
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  • Origin of Group Identity

    Viruses, Addiction and Cooperation

    A sense of belonging is basic to the human experience. But in this, humans are not unique. Essentially all life, from bacteria to humans, have ways by which it determines which members belong and which do not. This is a basic cooperative nature of life I call group membership which is examined in this book. However, cooperation of living things is not easily accounted for by current theory of ... Read more

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  • Muscle Gene Therapy

    Edited by Dongsheng Duan ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Muscle disease represents an important health threat to the general population. There is essentially no cure. Gene therapy holds great promise to correct the genetic defects and eventually achieve full recovery in these diseases. Significant progresses have been made in the field of muscle gene therapy over the last few years. The development of novel gene delivery vectors has substantially ... Read more

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    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
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