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...trial at Moorfields is not a conceptual breakthrough for the young science of gene therapy - there have been other trials on procedures in other organs - but, as a milestone, it's a good marker of where the field stands today. At its most basic, gene therapy is anything that introduces new genetic material to help fight or prevent a disorder. Treatment options are still in the experimental stages, and are not free of philosophical critics. But gene therapy has also been heralded as a potential cure for all kinds of genetic diseases (think cystic fibrosis or sickle-cell anemia...
...taken ingenuity. In patients like Robert Johnson, Ali delivers the functional gene using a virus that's been modified so it won't attack the eye or reproduce. The two trial subjects so far have not had severe immune responses to the new matter in their eyes - always a danger. Scientists are especially hopeful because the procedure worked so well in its animal trials. Scanning the eyes of dogs that underwent the procedure, researchers could see how the photoreceptor cells had changed. More important, the previously blind dogs could see well enough to navigate through a maze...
...says he expects it will be at least a year - and probably longer -before any results of his trial are published. It can take months for the new genes to take effect. He is, however, "optimistic." He's not alone. "I don't have any doubt this is going to be a real home run. The people in this trial, they're going to be out playing Frisbee, seeing their girlfriends' and boyfriends' faces for the first time," says Jeffrey Boatright, a self-described "second-generation" gene-therapy researcher at Emory University in Atlanta. The U.S. National Eye Institute issued...
Castine said a limited trial run was needed before the system could be offered to all of the Houses. Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd emphasized that even after the test phase, each House would need the approval of its masters before installing the technology...
...Those troubling questions about Col. Thomas Pappas are being raised in the walkup to one of the final trials stemming from the abuses at Abu Ghraib, which has resulted in a handful of enlisted men going to prison - while top officers, including Pappas, have suffered few if any legal consequences. Under a grant of immunity, Pappas, who has already testified at the courts martial of other subordinates, is scheduled to give evidence in the August trial of his former deputy, Lt. Col. Steven Jordan. Jordan faces six counts and up to 16 1/2 years in prison for alleged cruelty...