Gene therapy edges towards commercial reality
Date: 5.3.2009
**Gene therapy** may be about to become a commercial reality, 20 years after the first experiments with the ground-breaking **medical technology**.
But the tale of two biotech companies - one British and one U.S. - suggests a tricky road ahead.
On the one side, French authorities last week allowed an experimental gene medicine from Britain's Ark Therapeutics to be prescribed to certain patients with **brain cancer**, even though it is not approved for general use.
"Reuters":[ http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKTRE51Q2O120090227]
