«Our next goal is to replicate these experiments and test their safety in larger mammals, such as pigs, before
considering clinical trials in humans,» added Dr. Srivastava, who is also a professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), with which Gladstone is affiliated.
Not exact matches
These allusions to the past aren't surprising
considering how drastically the
clinical trial changed gene therapy and,
in particular, the career of James M. Wilson, the medical geneticist who headed Penn's Institute for
Human Gene Therapy, where the test took place.
In addition, Congress has prohibited the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from even
considering whether to green - light a
human clinical trial using genome - edited embryos.
«If the findings are supported by future
clinical trials in humans, then voluntary exercise could be
considered as a way to improve the intellectual functioning of these children.»
Nevertheless, direct experimentation and
clinical trials in humans are still lacking at the present time, and to avoid the possibility of generating false hopes the preliminary data from animal models obviously have to be
considered very cautiously.