Overcoming multidrug resistance in cancer cells by silencing genes with RNA
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 11:02
in Health & Medicine
(Phys.org) —Resistance of tumor cells toward multiple cytostatic drugs is a serious problem in cancer treatment. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a team of Chinese and American researchers has now introduced a new approach to gene therapy that could counter this problem: The gene that codes for resistance is "silenced" through the use of an ingenious nanocomplex.