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TAP Biosystems Wins UCL SME Partner of the Year Award
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- Published on Tuesday, 22 May 2012 10:27
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Cambridge, UK: TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems and consumables for life science applications, is delighted to announce it has been awarded the University College London (UCL) Small to Medium Enterprise Partner of the Year Award 2012.
The Award, presented at a ceremony at UCL’s campus in Bloomsbury, London, last Thursday night, has been awarded because of the close collaboration between the company and UCL researchers, producing valuable research with commercial potential.
How “The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It” Wrote Itself
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- Published on Thursday, 17 May 2012 06:44
- Written by Ricki Lewis
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When I met smiling, 9-year-old Corey Haas on a dazzling Saturday morning in early December, 2009, I knew that the time had finally arrived to write a book about gene therapy for the general public. St. Martin’s Press published “The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It,” in March, 2012. It was a long time coming – as was the field of gene therapy itself.
I’d been writing about gene therapy since the beginning. In September 1990, at the NIH, 4-year-old Ashi DeSilva received her own altered white blood cells to treat ADA deficiency. Two other Septembers form the high and low points of my book: Corey’s amazing ability to see at the Philadelphia zoo, four days after gene therapy for Leber congenital amaurosis type 2 in 2008, and 18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger’s death, four days after his gene therapy to treat ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, in the same city in 1999.
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What is Gene Therapy?
Gene Therapy is the transfer of genetic material (gene transfer) to dysfunctional cells to correct a deficiency in the DNA or genome of a patient. Cell Therapy, such as stem cell therapy, can also be used to achieve these goals. These approaches can be applied to genetic disorders as well as diseases acquired over the lifetime of an individual, such as cancer or infection, to confer a specific property to the cell allowing it to combat the disease.
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