Nanodiamonds Advance Anticancer Gene Therapy


	Nanodiamonds Advance Anticancer Gene Therapy

dopesick

9-25-2009 7:50 PM

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Dr. Ho and his research team engineered surface-modified nanodiamond particles that successfully and efficiently delivered DNA into mammalian cells. The delivery efficiency was 70 times greater than that of a conventional standard for gene delivery.
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