MDC scientists: Optimised tool for gene delivery
Monday, May 4, 2009 - 03:14
in Biology & Nature
Scientists from the Max Delbrueck Centre for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany have succeeded in generating a hyperactive 'jumping gene' (a transposon) and hope to have an improved tool for basic research and gene therapy. 'The new transposon system is able to introduce genes into cells and to stably insert them into the cell's genome at an unprecedented efficiency,' Dr Lajos Mates, Dr Zoltan Ivics and Dr Zsuzsanna Izsvak point out. They worked together with scientists from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium...