Professor Joost Verhaagen at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience says: 'The use of a stealth
gene switch provides an important safeguard and is an encouraging step toward an effective gene therapy for spinal cord injury.
SCIENTISTS have found a way to turn off cancer with the flick of a
gene switch.
Oxford BioMedica's RetinoStat is a LentiVector gene delivery system expressing an angiostatic gene under the control of its proprietary hypoxia response element
gene switch. RetinoStat is currently in preclinical development.
thuringiensis (Bt) protein
gene switch to food staples.
A promoter is a
gene switch required to turn the gene on, ie, to transcribe the gene; a terminator, in this context, is a genetic signal to ensure that the gene transcript will be translated into protein.
"This
gene switch may be why humans of generations past were shorter and smaller than people are today.