Can Viruses be Modified to Achieve Sustained Gene Transfer?
It is very easy to replace a faulty gene in an immunocompromised mouse. First, one takes a well-characterized virus, such as an adenovirus or an adeno-associated virus, and incorporates the correct version of the faulty gene together with some regulatory sequences into the genome. Then, one transduc...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2011-07-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2011.00152/full |