Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham & Women’s Hospital have developed a technique to deliver strands of RNA to colon cells using bursts of ultrasound waves. The team’s technique turned down the production of a protein involved in inflammatory bowel disease in mice.
The paper, which was published in Gastroenterology, described a simple method of delivering nucleic acids to cells – a task which has proven difficult in previous studies.
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