Hyperactive “Sleeping Beauty” MDC Scientists: “Optimized Tool For Gene Delivery”

Scientists from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany have succeeded in generating a hyperactive “jumping gene” (a transposon) and hope to have an improved tool for basic research and gene therapy. “The new transposon system is able to introduce genes into cells and to stably insert them into the cell’s genome at an unprecedented efficiency,” Dr. Lajos Mátés, Dr. Zoltán Ivics and Dr. Zsuzsanna Izsvák point out.

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Filed under: Genetics on May 6th, 2009