Developing nonviral gene delivery system in Primate (IMAGE)

Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology (ASHBi), Kyoto University

Developing nonviral gene delivery system in Primate

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Genetic engineering in non-human primates has long been limited by the need for virus-based gene delivery methods. Recently, researchers in Japan successfully used a nonviral system to introduce a transgene—that is, a gene that has been artificially inserted into an organism—into cynomolgus monkeys, which is a species of primate closely related to humans.

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