Good gene therapy comes in small packages (IMAGE)

King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)

Good gene therapy comes in small packages

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In biomedicine, metal-organic frameworks can be used to deliver pharmaceuticals around the human body. A KAUST-led team has developed a MOF-based system for getting DNA across cell membranes into target cells.

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© JACS Chand et al (2022); artwork by Ivan Gromicho.

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