The importance of gene therapy is increasing more and more. This book covers both somatic gene therapy of inherited human diseases as well as of cancer, with emphasis on malignancies of the hematopoietic system.
Topics include the isolation and development of hematopoietic stem cells, genes involved in development and diseases, methods of gene transfer, carrying out gene transfer, oncogenes and antioncogenes as targets for gene therapy, receptors and their ligands in normal development and diseases, immunology and immunotherapy, radiation biology, clinical leukemias and bone marrow...