New protein booster may lead to better DNA vaccines and gene therapy
Thursday, March 5, 2015 - 11:30
in Biology & Nature
Scientists have discovered a new way to manipulate how cells function, a finding that might help advance an experimental approach to improving public health: DNA vaccines, which could be more efficient, less expensive and easier to store than traditional vaccines. Their approach improves upon an existing laboratory technique, transfection, widely used to study how cells and viruses work.