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PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:59 pm    Post subject: A novel, safer strategy for regulating gene expression Reply with quote
Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School have created a novel, elegant, and safer system for controlling gene expression - turning genes on and off as needed - that involves an intervention as simple as giving a drug. Potentially, with this broadly applicable technique, a gene could even be activated by natural conditions in the body - for example, in a diabetic patient, a rise in glucose concentration would automatically turn on the gene responsible for insulin production.

[url=http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-09/chb-ans092004.php]Read more...[/url]
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