I’m thrilled to announce that I’m up for two Aurora Awards this year! Fireboy is on the ballot for Best Young Adult Novel, and The Worldshapers is once again on the ballot for Best Fan …
I spent a good chunk of today at Wordbridge, the annual writers’ conference in Lethbridge, Alberta. My main reason for coming was to launch a Shadowpaw Press title (Broken Realm by Jenna Greene, a Lethbridge …
This is Easter weekend; last weekend, I sang in the Easter concert of First Baptist Church here in Regina as a guest soloist and chorister. The whole concert is worth listening to, but if you’d …
I put a link to this in the previous post on my Aurora-eligible work for 2025, but wanted to highlight it. This was my contribution to the Shapers of Worlds Volume V anthology, and it …
The Aurora Awards are Canada’s best-known science fiction and fantasy awards, voted on by fans every year. I’ve been fortunate enough to win twice, for Marseguro (DAW Books) (soon coming out in a new edition from Tuscany …
Put this under the category of “things I’ve meant to do for a long time”: I finally published (under my Endless Sky Books imprint) a new edition of The Haunted Horn, a modern-day middle-grade ghost …
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Technique makes gene therapy permanent
This sounds exciting: Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers have developed a technique for inserting genes into specific non-coding regions of the genome in liver cells. Because these regions occur between genes, there’s no danger of the insertion damanging existing genes–and the inserted gene becomes a permanent part of the genome.
Using this technique, the researchers cured a condition called phenylketonuria (PKU) in mice.
Could this be the breakthrough that makes the enormous promise of gene therapy a reality?
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2005/10/technique-makes-gene-therapy-permanent/
