Altered virus becomes medicine

Dutch researchers Roeland Nolte and Jeroen Cornelissen have successfully converted a virus into a unique drug distributor. They removed all of the dangerous material from the virus so that empty, semipermeable particles remained. They subsequently joined these particles together, yet even more important: they also succeeded in separating them again. This is a world first. With this discovery the researchers have blazed a trail for a new use of drugs. Their results were published in the journal Nature Chemistry...

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