Nanotechnology holds promise for STD drug delivery

Sunday, May 3, 2009 - 16:35 in Health & Medicine

Yale researchers describe a breakthrough in safe and effective administration of potential antiviral drugs - small interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules that silence genes - the first step in development of a new kind of treatment for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The work is reported May 4 as an advance online publication of Nature Materials.

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