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Ultrathin films deliver DNA as possible gene therapy tool
03-26-2007 · EurekAlert!Gene therapy -- the idea of using genetic instructions rather than drugs to treat disease -- has tickled scientists' imaginations for decades, but is not yet a viable therapeutic method. One sizeable hurdle is getting the right genes into the right place at the right time. Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are now developing a tool to tackle this problem.
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