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GENE THERAPY RESEARCH IN CHINA

Authors: Xuetao Cao,Weiping Zhang,Jianren Gu

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Gene therapy was firstly proposed in China by professor Min Wu (Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing) in 1974 as a potentially promising approach to disease treatment. Since 1980, many Chinese scientists have being made their efforts to investigate the somatic cell therapy and the basic researches on gene therapy. From 1990's, some important advances in gene therapy researches have been achieved in China.

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