Could gold be the key to making gene therapy for HIV blood disorders more accessible

Could gold be the key to making gene therapy for HIV, blood disorders more accessible?

20:00 EDT 26 May 2019 | AAAS

(Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center took a step toward making gene therapy more practical by simplifying the way gene-editing instructions are delivered to cells. Using a gold nanoparticle instead of an inactivated virus, they safely delivered gene-editing tools in lab models of HIV and inherited blood disorders, as reported May 27, 2019 in Nature Materials.

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