UMass medical school researchers report oral delivery system for RNAi therapeutics
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 12:35
in Health & Medicine
WORCESTER, Mass.--Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) report today on a novel approach to the delivery of small bits of genetic material in order to silence genes using "RNA interference"--and in the process, discovered a potent method of suppressing inflammation in mice similar to what occurs in a range of human diseases.