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Data from Huazhong University of Science and Technology Provide New Insights into Gene Therapy

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, April 26th, 2012

2012 APR 26 -- Fresh data on Gene Therapy are presented in the report "Target delivery of a gene into the brain using the RVG29-oligoarginine peptide. 'The development of non-viral delivery systems that are capable of mediating an efficient, exclusive, and non-invasive transfer of DNA across the blood-brain barrier into the brain is challenging, but essential for the clinical application of gene therapy to brain diseases. Compared with other non-viral DNA carriers (e.g., lipids or polymers), peptide-based DNA delivery systems have many advantages including the ease of synthesis, low immunogenicity, biocompatibility, and biodegradability in vivo," scientists in Wuhan, People's...

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