Synthetic virus developed to deliver a new generation of medicines

Thursday, August 28, 2014 - 07:30 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at the universities of Wageningen, Eindhoven, Leiden and Nijmegen have developed a synthetic virus. This can be used in the future to 'package' new generations of medicines consisting of large biomolecules and to deliver them into diseased cells, by a natural process. Prof.dr.ir. Paul van der Schoot at TU/e was responsible for the basic theoretical research. The results also confirm that he has solved a thirty-year-old question. The work was published last Sunday in Nature Nanotechnology.

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