1.   Gene therapy research is exploring ways to treat various inherited syndromes.

2.   And on Thursday, the Senate is to convene its second hearing to examine accusations of lax government oversight of gene therapy research.

3.   But both have drawn the attention of members of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, the National Institutes of Health panel that oversees gene therapy research.

4.   Last month the FDA shut down all gene therapy research at the University of Pennsylvania.

5.   Melov, who initiated the pilot studies, worked in collaboration with scientists in England, Atlanta and Massachusetts on the drug therapy research reported today in Science.

6.   No agreement was reached on the plan, put forth by the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee, the National Institutes of Health panel that oversees gene therapy research.

7.   Orkin is co-chairman of a committee convened by Dr. Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health, to advise him on gene therapy research.

8.   Right now, the main approaches in gene therapy research are to infuse naked DNA into cells or to use viruses to add DNA to the genome.

9.   Sandoz said other gene therapy research is looking at cancer treament.

10.   The experiment involving Jesse Gelsinger was unusual, as gene therapy research goes, because the participants were not particularly sick.