Gene therapy revisited

Gene therapy revisited

Since the death of Jesse Gelsinger 2 years ago during clinical trials at the University of Pennsylvania, gene therapy has maintained a low profile and receded from the public eye. But away from the headlines, researchers are, in fact, quietly making progress and are confident that, within the next decade, gene transfer will be elevated from its current experimental status to a therapeutic modal...

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Ozone therapy in dentistry: revisited

Dear Editor, I read with great interest the article: Ozone therapy: an overview of pharmacodynamics, current research, and clinical utility by Smith et al.1 in Medical Gas Research. I would like to suggest certain additions to the above review article regarding ozone therapy in dentistry with emphasis on recent positive studies done with speciality wise classification and applications (Table 1).

QUICKSELECT Revisited

We give an overview of the running time analysis of the random divide-and-conquer algorithm FIND or QUICKSELECT. The results concern moments, distribution of FIND’s running time, the limiting distribution, a stochastic bound and the key: a stochastic fixed point equation.

PENDRED\'S SYNDROME REVISITED

Pendred's syndrome is defined as a triad of congenital perceptive hearing loss, goiter, and abnormal perchlorate test. Three brothers with Pendred's syndrome [P.S.] are reported. The oldest brother has hearing loss (he has been deaf and mute since childhood) and has a large goiter. A thyroid scan revealed euthyroid multinodular goiter and a perchlorate test was performed, and reported abno...