Gene-laden Bubbles Grow New Blood Vessels
Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 15:57
in Health & Medicine
Progress in human gene therapy -- the insertion of therapeutic DNA into tissues and cells in the human body -- has been slower than expected since the first clinical trials in 1990. One of the biggest challenges for this technology is finding ways to safely and effectively deliver genes only to the specific parts of the body that they are meant to treat.