Gene Therapy for Pain
By Jay Yang, Christopher Wu
Will future treatments for one of medicine's most intractable problems include the new genetic technologies?
This Article From Issue
March-April 2001
Volume 89, Number 2
Page 126
DOI: 10.1511/2001.18.126
Pain encompasses a cruel irony. One of the most universal of human sensations, pain seems nevertheless to lie beyond ordinary comprehension. Its cause has been ascribed to the activities of otherworldly forces, such as demons, gremlins and, more recently, extraterrestrial aliens, as though the condition itself were otherworldly.
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