This will help to reduce the stress on your back. - Reduce eyestrain. Re-focus your eyes from time to time looking away from the monitor at a distant object. Keep your area relatively neat, clean and clutter-free. Staff report University sponsors national conference on gene therapy University of Kentucky colleges of Allied Health Professions, Medicine and Pharmacy sponsored a working conference Oct. 22-23 with the goal of developing recommendations for clinical infection control in gene therapy. Among the experts presenting were physicians and scientists from the UK Chandler Medical Center, the Institute for Human Gene Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hospital and School of Medicine.
Gene therapy aims to treat a disease by modifying the action of a person's genes.
The goal of gene therapy with genetic diseases, which result from defective, or mutated, genes, is to deliver a correct copy of the mutated gene directly to the nucleus of the abnormal cells, thereby restoring normal function of the gene. Many other types of diseases that are not strictly genetic diseases are being investigated for gene therapy, including cardiovascular and infectious diseases. In these instances, gene therapy aims to insert genes that control or affect the action of the disease-causing genes. However, as with all potential infectious agents, questions about the procedures to ensure safety for gene therapy trial participants, health care workers and other patients and visitors in the clinic or hospital are being brought to the attention of infection control specialists. But no generally applicable answers to these questions are available.