Archive: 05/04/2017
Gut microbe may improve fatty liver
Oral administration of a commensal gut microbe, Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, improves fatty liver in mice. F. prausnitzii is considered one of the most important bacterial indicators of a healthy gut. It has been shown to ...
Apr 5, 2017
Debate continues over human immune system's role in blocking therapeutic genes delivered using AAV vectors
The hypothesis that memory T cells formed in response to childhood infections may be to blame for the loss of expression of therapeutic genes delivered via viral vectors has been hotly debated, but recent clinical trials ...
Apr 5, 2017