MEDICINE:
Gene Therapy Enters Adolescence
A review by Jeffrey M. Leiden
The Development of Human Gene Therapy
Theodore Friedmann, Ed.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 1999. 743 pp. $134. ISBN 0-87969-528-5.
The contributors, leaders in the field, provide a compendium of review articles that highlights significant recent advances and illuminates the remaining obstacles to the use of gene therapies in clinical practice.
The author is at the Harvard School of Public Health, Building II, Room 117, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. E-mail: leiden{at}cvlab.harvard.edu