25 Jun
2008

More than 15 years ago researchers discovered a way to stay a particular gene in its tracks. The Nobel gain-winning finding holds tantalizing promise payment medical principles, but so play a part go overboard it has been burdensome to apply the genius, known as RNA interference, in living cells. at the present time researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle and Emory University in Atlanta have succeeded in using nanotechnology known as quantum dots to address this problem. Their proficiency is 10 to 20 times more paraphernalia than existing methods in requital for injecting the gene-silencing tools, known as siRNA, into cells........