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Data on Hepatitis C Virus Published by Researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Published in Gastroenterology Week, March 26th, 2012

2012 MAR 26 -- Investigators discuss in "Functional delivery of DNAzyme with iron oxide nanoparticles for hepatitis C virus gene knockdown" new findings in hepatitis C virus. According to the authors of a study from Daejeon, South Korea, "DNAzyme is an attractive therapeutic oligonucleotide which enables cleavage of mRNA in a sequence-specific manner and thus, silencing target gene. A particularly important challenge in achieving the successful down-regulation of gene expression is to efficiently deliver DNAzymes to disease sites and cells."

"Here, we report the nanoparticle-assisted functional delivery of therapeutic DNAzyme for the treatment of hepatitis...

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