lentivirus
Americannoun
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lentiviruses
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Origin of lentivirus
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In 2025 my company, Umoja Biopharma, treated leukemia and lymphoma patients using an in vivo lentivirus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
The researchers then used a lentivirus to insert DNA into microglial cells at the site of the injury.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2023
Another type of gene-delivering virus, or vector, has been implicated in cancers in clinical trials, but never a lentivirus.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 11, 2021
It was this type of treatment, as part of the largest lentivirus ongoing gene therapy trial led by Bluebird Bio, that effectively arrested Colón’s sickle cell condition.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 17, 2021
Like Bluebird Bio’s investigators, Williams and his colleagues are using a disabled lentivirus to deliver a gene to sickle cell patients.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2021
But lentiviruses only express spike, not SARS-CoV-2’s other three structural proteins.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 3, 2021
And some, such as lentiviruses, tend to insert themselves into coding regions, the parts of the genome that get translated into proteins.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2021
Those side effects led scientists to switch to lentiviruses, a subset of retroviruses that includes HIV.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 11, 2021
Lentiviruses have had a strong track record in gene therapy, despite a recent scare: In February, bluebird bio halted two sickle cell gene therapy trials, which also use lentiviruses, after a participant developed MDS.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 11, 2021
The possibility that lentiviruses might not be safe was of grave concern.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2021
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