Penn researchers report that gene therapy awakens the brain despite blindness from birth
...-a-half years after therapy, suggesting a level of permanence to the treatment. Penn scientists then studied the structure and function of the visual brain of human patients with the same form of blindness. Young adults with blindness from RPE65 mutation had intact visual brain pathways with nearly normal st...Bioportfolio: Life-long persistence of erythrovirus DNA genomes in human tissue
...e Bioportfolio might provide the desired long-term permanence for gene therapy vectors, which in the future could be designed in accordance with this innate characteristic of the human body....Ranks of 'environmental refugees' swell, calls grow for better definition, recognition, support
...pressures. Other questions include determining the permanence of environment-related dislocation the difference between 'refugees' and evacuees. "There is then the question of people forced to move involuntarily by dams and other development processes. The World Bank estimates that in the 1990s some 100 milli...