Gene Therapy: Current Situation and Application Prospect

Therapy of human African trypanosomiasis: current situation.

This paper is a review of the current situation of the treatment of human African trypanosomiasis. The existing approved drugs are old, toxic and/or expensive. Therapeutic failures are common. Several factors may contribute to the problems of chemotherapy, including differences in the epidemiology of the disease, difficulties in the diagnosis and staging of the infection, availability, distribu...

Clinical application of plasma derived medicines: current situation and future trend

Current Situation and Prospect of Grassland Management Decision Support Systems in China

China, with wide grassland areas of the second rank throughout the world, is faced with a severe challenge on how to manage its vast and degenerating/degenerated grassland. Computer and network technologies are more and more widely applied in grassland production, research and education, which is just a greatly encouraging field. Tremendous achievements have been made in grassland management de...

ESP at the Tertiary Level : Current Situation , Application and Expectation

English for Specific Purposes, so far, is probing its way in our Sudanese universities. It is taught as a university requirement. Unfortunately, our students are disappointed when they graduate confronting the real situation in the workplace to use their ESP background. Most of the students feel they discontent with the syllabus which had been taught, because it doesn’t meet their needs. Furthe...

Gene Therapy : Current Concepts

4. Gene therapy can improve patient's compliance and decrease cost of therapy on long term bases. Types of Gene Therapy (2,3) Gene therapy can be targeted to somatic (body) or germ (egg and sperm) cells. In somatic gene therapy, the recipient's genome is changed, but the change is not passed along to the next generation. In germline gene therapy, the parent's egg and sperm cells are changed wit...