Technology is all around us. Some of it is even starting to look a bit unreal. Eric Topol, in his book “The Patient Will See You Now - The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands”,
Arvind Krishnamurthy, Vijayalakshmi Ramshankar, Kanchan Murhekar, Vidyarani Shyamsundar, Pavithra B Desai, Purvish Parikh (Department of Surgical Oncology, Cancer Institute (WIA), Adyar, Chennai, India, Department Preventive Oncology Research, Cancer Institute (WIA), Adyar, Chennai, India, Department of Pathology, Cancer Institute (WIA), Adyar,
Investigator initiated studies (IIS) are clinical studies designed and managed by individual physician-researchers and institutions, and include a wide range, e.g., interventional clinical trials of drugs and observational prospective and retrospective studies. IIS can help in investigating health research questions relevant to medical practice.
Payam A. Gammage et al reported the first in vivo successes in using zinc finger nucleases (ZFN) for selectively editing away pathogenic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNAs) in a heteroplasmic mammalian mitochondrial population.
