What is Gene Therapy? (2008): CF gene therapy aims to insert a fully functional CFTR gene into the lung airway cells of people with the condition. Two main types of vector are used to deliver this new copy of the gene. A viral vector, engineered from viral particles or non-viral vectors, plasmid DNA molecules condensed by other chemical entities. More...
Large scale lentivirus production in suspension culture.
Human airway liquid interface cultures transduced with a lentivirus expressing Luciferase.
Light microscope image of a human airway liquid interface cultures. Dark patches are mucous.
Proposed 3D model of the CFTR protein.
E.coli from a large scale industrial production of our clinical trial plasmid pGM169.
Mouse lung large airway (cell nuclei blue) transduced with an adenoviral vector (green).
Sheep lung parenchyma (cell nuclei blue) transduced with an adenoviral vector (green).
A CFTR Western blot, to confirm protein production in cell culture.
A cake that only some of us got to enjoy!
Pellets of DNA following precipitation.
Purifying mRNA from tissue samples.
DNA fragments being cut from an agarose gel exposed to UV.
A frozen vial of GL67A (left) and a frozen vial of pGM169 plasmid DNA (right)
A pellet of E.coli containing a plasmid expressing a pink fluorescent protein.