THE STATE-OF-THE-ART IN ANTISENSE RESEARCH

The first annual Nature Medicine conference, The Art of Antisense, was held 21-22 September in New Orleans, Louisiana. In the following comm entaries, Richard Wagner of Gilead Sciences and C.A. Stein of Columbia University, the conference co-organizers, discuss the new data presen ted at the meeting and consider the promise and shortcomings of the fi eld of antisense.