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Chemistry World April 9, 2015 Emma Stoye	BMS invests in gene therapy Bristol-Myers Squibb has agreed to invest over $100 million in Netherlands-based biotechnology company uniQure, which specializes in gene therapies for cardiovascular diseases.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011	Seeing is Believing Today, researchers are finding clever ways to deliver long-lasting, healthy genes without triggering a serious immune response.
Salon.com June 1, 2000 Tabitha M. Powledge	Gene therapy R.I.P.? When the country's biggest gene therapy institute was ordered to stop testing on humans last week, the action marked the end of an era fraught with dubious claims to success and a mess of unreported adverse effects.
BusinessWeek April 22, 2010 Rob Waters	Gene Therapy Takes a Turn for the Better Researchers and investors are heartened by advances in gene therapy. Analysts say revenues are still several years off, however.
Scientific American September 2009 Melinda Wenner	Gene therapy: An Interview with an Unfortunate Pioneer Lessons learned by James M. Wilson, the scientist behind the first gene therapy death
The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 Brian Orelli	Another Blow to Gene Therapy The FDA shuts down a clinical trial, tripping up Targeted Genetics and possibly its competitors. A subject in the trial of their gene therapy arthritis medication died shortly after taking the drug.
Chemistry World February 24, 2010 James Urquhart	Buckyball-based gene delivery Japanese researchers have demonstrated effective gene delivery in mice using carbon buckyballs.
Scientific American June 2009 Melinda Wenner	Genetic Copy Variations and Disease A new sense for how variable numbers of genes cause disease.
AskMen.com	The "Fatso" Gene One hour of moderate to vigorous exercise a day can help teens beat the effects of a common obesity-related gene with the nickname "fatso."
Reason April 2007 Ronald Bailey	Testing Your Strength The World Anti-Doping Agency is developing tests for a form of cheating that doesn't exist yet. The agency banned gene doping, the alteration of genes to enhance athletic performance.
BusinessWeek February 10, 2011 Rob Waters	Sangamo's Bet Against AIDS: Gene Therapy Sangamo's stock has more than doubled since July 6, when the company, with no products on the market, reported success of its gene therapy approach in mice in the journal Nature Biotechnology.
Managed Care June 2004 Thomas Morrow	Laronidase Opens Door To Treat Other Rare Disorders The release of alpha-L-iduronidase also demonstrates the wave of future treatments for many other mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) diseases.
Chemistry World July 29, 2015 Phillip Broadwith	Biogen to develop gene therapies with AGTC The deal covers AGTC's development programs for several rare eye diseases using a viral-based gene delivery vector.
BusinessWeek March 6, 2006 Bruce Einhorn	A Cancer Treatment You Can't Get Here China, with lower regulatory hurdles, is racing to a lead in gene therapy.
Chemistry World October 14, 2011 James Mitchell Crow	Twist in the tale to improve gene therapy New insights into the physical properties of different forms of DNA could help to improve gene therapy, chemists in Spain and India say.
Scientific American July 2008 Christine Soares	Looking at Yesterday's Genes for Tomorrow's Cures Resurrected "jumping gene" could deliver DNA.
Salon.com May 1, 2000 Arthur Allen	Listening to DNA The genome project is getting the buzz. But the real breakthroughs may come from labs out of the limelight, like Gene Logic.
Managed Care August 2004 Thomas Morrow	10,000 Cells on a Chip Signal Start of New Era of Diagnosis Diseases will soon be defined by biochemical pathways and genetic interactions. Biochips may identify patients likely to respond to therapeutic agents. All of this is a big deal for health plans.
Salon.com December 19, 2000 Carolyn McConnell	"The Century of the Gene" by Evelyn Fox Keller A new book argues that there may be no such thing as a gene. At least, it has proved very difficult to isolate a discrete physical item that can do the work our notion of the gene does...
Wired February 25, 2008 Julie Sloane	15th Anniversary: DNA-Customized Medicine Still Stuck in the Pipeline Gene scanning isn't yet standard practice. But over the past six years, medicine has been inching closer to prescriptions that are custom-matched to a patients' DNA.
Bio-IT World November 12, 2002 Sue Mayer	Are Gene Patents in the Public Interest? Two recent studies from Britain argue against the unbridled patenting of genes and raise tough ethical questions.
American Family Physician June 1, 2006 Raghuveer Et Al.	Inborn Errors of Metabolism in Infancy and Early Childhood: An Update Primary care physicians often are the first to be contacted by state and reference laboratories when neonatal screening detects the possibility of an inborn error of metabolism. Physicians must take immediate steps to evaluate the infant and should be able to access a subspecialty center.
Popular Mechanics September 25, 2009 Erin McCarthy	Fringe's Human Mutant Not Possible, Says Expert We won't ever have to worry about Fringe's part-mole-rat, part-scorpion, part-human mutant in real life because it's not within the realm of possibility.
Managed Care September 2007	Gene Discovery May Change Treatments for Hearing Loss Otosclerosis has been traditionally managed with hearing aids and surgery, but a recent discovery may result in development of a biochemical treatment.
Nurse Practitioner August 2009 Linda A. Howe	Pharmacogenomics and management of cardiovascular disease Prior to the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, individual responses to medications were usually termed idiosyncrasies. Ethnic differences were not usually seen as genetic variants, as is the case today.
Chemistry World January 3, 2013 Sarah Houlton	2012 pharma industry roundup It may have been a relatively quiet year in terms of mergers and acquisitions, but the pharma industry nonetheless made plenty of headlines in 2012.
Fast Company March 2006 Ramez Naam	The Body: Bulletproof Gene therapy is on its way - and it's coming fast.
Chemistry World November 27, 2007 James Mitchell Crow	A Flare for Gene Silencing US scientists have developed nanoparticle probes coated with DNA that release fluorescent 'flares' when they silence genes inside cells.
American Journal of Nursing October 2009	Pharmacogenomics: Personalizing Drug Therapy Pharmacogenomics is a rapidly growing field of research into the ways in which genetic variation affects drug response.
Bio-IT World May 2006 Kevin Davies	Decoding the Genetics of Common Disease Icelandic biopharma deCODE Genetics' Kari Stefansson says his company's search for genes underlying common diseases is not only pushing promising new drug candidates into the clinic but also revealing new insights into the very basis of common disease.
Chemistry World March 30, 2006 Helen Carmichael	Gene Therapists Swarm Round Honeycomb Lipid Researchers have synthesised a lipid molecule they say shows real promise in gene therapy. The lipid forms a novel honeycomb complex that the researchers claim is tailored to non-viral DNA delivery.
Reason Aug/Sep 2000 Ronald Bailey	Strands of Life Book Review: Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Matt Ridley
Wired September 2002 Amanda Griscom	Take These Genes and Call Me in the Morning Gene vaccines may be relatively new, but they're the logical outgrowth of two familiar strands of medical science.
The Motley Fool November 17, 2006 Jack Uldrich	Neanderthal DNA Enlightens Investors Investors, the superb performance of 454's gene sequencing equipment on such a difficult and important project bodes well for its future prospects.
Technology Research News June 16, 2004	Genes Automate DNA Machines Researchers have taken a step toward automating nanomachines with a method that allows instructions for a DNA-based machine to be contained in a gene, or another stretch of DNA.
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Schoenbach et al.	Zap Extreme voltage could be a surprisingly delicate tool in the fight against cancer. The list of effects that scientists have achieved using nanoseconds-long pulses is growing rapidly, though their actual use as a medical treatment is still years away.
AskMen.com	Mean People A new study in the journal Psychological Science suggests that if people have certain gene variants, they're more likely to be nice.
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 John Carey	The NIH's Roadmap for Research Charting the human genome was just the beginning. Now the focus is creating pathways that will lead to practical applications.
BusinessWeek May 9, 2005 John Carey	Dr. Francis S. Collins: On The Trail Of Disease Genes Collins is leading the search for DNA variations that can result in illnesses.
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2011 Dickmeyer & Rosenbeck	From Rut to Racetrack Can the pharmaceutical industry deliver on its objective to make cancer a curable, chronic condition?
Bio-IT World March 8, 2005 Kevin Davies	Evolution of New Genes Studied EMBL researchers use comparative genomic analysis to identify new primate-specific gene family.
Managed Care August 2007 Thomas Morrow	Gene Expression Microarray Improves Prediction of Breast Cancer Outcomes Flash-frozen samples of surgically removed breast cancer tissue are the key to measuring a patient's risk of metastasis.
Salon.com June 27, 2000 Tabitha M. Powledge	Book of life? Hosanna! The Human Genome Project has been completed. We will now cure diseases, weed out defective genes and create a new supergeneration in the near future. Not.
Bio-IT World January 13, 2003 Kari Stefansson	The Icelandic Man Cometh The founder of deCODE Genetics on Viking DNA, privacy, disease, and aging.
Chemistry World June 7, 2007 Jessica Ebert	Sensitive Sequencing Technique for Early Diagnosis A new technique, with sensitivity unmatched by current technologies, can detect changes in gene transcription that occur during the course of a disease, report US researchers.
Bio-IT World June 17, 2004 Michael A. Goldman	A Hip Approach to Gene Hunting IntegraGen defines the genetic blueprint of complex human diseases and delivers validated disease markers and therapeutic targets for a better diagnosis and a causal treatment of common diseases, based on its unique genomic analysis expertise.
Popular Mechanics January 2010 Melinda Wenner	Brown Fat Revelations May Lead to New Weight Loss Drugs As it turns out, doctors are still discovering how fat works. Rather than just a blubbery, lifeless mass, fat is now considered to be a sophisticated and scientifically complex biological organ