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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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/
