Researchers develop oral delivery system to treat inflammatory bowel diseases
Sunday, October 10, 2010 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University have developed a novel approach for delivering small bits of genetic material into the body to improve the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases. Delivering short strands of RNA into cells has become a popular research area because of its potential therapeutic applications, but how to deliver them into targeted cells in a living organism has been an obstacle.