Polymer-coated virus improves gene therapy

Coating a modified virus with a polymer dramatically increases their ability to penetrate and deliver therapeutic genes to cancer cells.

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Reference

Research team is from Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore.  Journal reference: Yang, Y., Lo, S.-L, Yang, J., Yang, J., Goh, S.S.L., Wu, C., Feng, S.-S., Wang, S. Polyethylenimine coating to produce serum-resistant baculoviral vectors for in vivo gene delivery. Biomaterials 30, 5767–5774 (2009)