You could try "Journal of Biological Chemistry". That's a good one. "Nature" and "PLoS" are also pretty good. If you're a university student, you should be able to access virtually all their papers from your school network, even if you aren't taking a biology course. The Journal "Blood" is also pretty good when you want papers to do with Leukemia or certain cancers.
I wish I could link you some papers, but I finished uni a year ago and I'm going for another degree but I won't be a student until January. Try Pubmed - that has some free papers.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
This sort of stuff is closely linked to Gene Therapy. While they are running some trials, gene therapy as a whole hit a massive snag, when the French used viruses to treat kids suffering from SCID (it basically meant they had no immune system. As in, at all. They were bubble-kids, even getting a cold would probably kill them). The treatment worked.... for half the kids. The other half developed cancer because the virus inserted the genes in the wrong place. As you can imagine, virotherapy and gene therapy ain't so popular now. As the XKCD comic mentioned, they are trying to use modified HIV viruses, because HIV viruses are CRAZY GOOD at inserting genes into places where they won't cause much harm.... sad thing is, the minute you even MENTION "Modified HIV", government and corporate sponsors throw up their arms and scream "NOOOOOOOOOOOO".
There are other alternatives people are trying - lipo-vectors, which are essentially shells made of lipids (which resemble viruses on the surface) that are designed to carry the gene and merge with your cells. Sad thing is, the body's own immune system recognizes the lipo-vectors as viruses and eventually will start to attack them, preventing patients from receiving the repeated doses needed to cure the disease.
It's a tricky problem. Scientist will solve it though. They're a clever bunch of folks. We might have to design a new vector entirely, out of pieces of the HIV virus. We can build viruses - why, a few years ago someone pieced together a polio virus from scratch, just to see if he could do it. Turns out, he could. So a lot of scientists are trying to cobble together an artificial vector out of pieces of more successful natural vectors - you could eventually design a vector that is HIV-like, but you could honestly go up to investors and say "It's not HIV". And it wouldn't be, and that's the point! You'd also have to redesign it in such a way as to make it as resistant to mutation as possible. It is possible - why, one of the reasons why smallpox was wiped out was due to the fact that it almost never mutated because the way its genome was set up ensured that it couldn't easily change its genetic structure. This meant that it almost never developed alternate strains, so the one vaccine that was invented by Jenner worked for virtually everyone (there were a few rare cases in which it didn't, but they were rare).
It's an exciting field. If anyone is studying molecular biology or virology or immunology, I'd encourage them to enter the field. It's a bit of a dismal field now, only because of that unfortunate incident with the French kids, but I'm certain, dead certain, that within a few years, maybe a decade or two, it will become an established treatment for many cancers, and more than a few genetic disorders, like Cystic Fibrosis.
