The researchers have so far observed similar results in the monkeys for at least three months. People with low red blood cell blood counts now receive regular Epo injections. Dr. Wilson and his colleagues now believe that a better therapy might be to insert the Epo gene into patients' muscle cells just once, and then switch it on every month or so with the pill rapamycin. V.M. Rivera, P. Zoltick, F. Cerasoli Jr., M.A. Schnell, G. Gao, J.V. Hughes, M. Gilman, and J.M. Wilson. Regulated delivery of therapeutic proteins after in vivo somatic cell gene transfer.
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