Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I …
It’s time for this year’s Kickstarter to fund Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the fifth in the series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The …
It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, is turning to Crowdfundr to help …
Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to …
My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and …
Here’s another seven-sentence short story! I ran the workshop again at Ganbatte, an anime convention in Saskatoon. It went well, and here’s the one I created, again with the instructions, created by noted SF short-story …
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Boost for gene therapy?
Gene therapy–inserting genes directly into cells–holds great promise for a number of diseases, and not just genetic diseases like hemophilia (though the potential there is obvious–and the fact I wrote a book on that disease is one reason I’ve been keeping tabs on gene therapy research).
The biggest problem has been that the method of inserting genes–via a modified virus–sometimes produces dangerous immune reactions. What we need is a non-viral method of transferring genes, and that’s what this research may offer.
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2006/03/boost-for-gene-therapy/
