American Thoracic Society
Vaporized viral vector shows promise in anti-cancer gene therapy
Published in Cancer Weekly, June 23rd, 2009
Gene therapy is an area of great promise, but delivery mechanisms, which have included intravenous injection and intratracheal instillation, have proven problematic for effective delivery of genetic therapy to lung tissues.
"Aerosol delivery targets the lungs specifically and represents a noninvasive alternative for targeting genes to the lung," wrote Myung-Haing Cho, D.V.M., Ph.D., professor at Seoul...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-06-23)
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