Researchers discover gene therapy to prevent progression of emphysema
Monday, December 21, 2009 - 17:49
in Health & Medicine
(Boston) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered a new gene therapy that may prevent the progression of emphysema. The study, which appears on-line in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, describes a method to express therapeutic genes in lung tissue for a lifetime after only a single treatment. Link: http://www.bmc.org