Smallest-reported artificial virus could help advance gene therapy
Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 08:02
in Biology & Nature
Gene therapy is a kind of experimental treatment that is designed to fix faulty genetic material and help a patient fight off or recover from a disease. Now scientists have engineered the smallest-reported virus-like shell that can self-assemble. It could someday carry potentially therapeutic DNA or RNA and transfer it to human cells.