Friday, February 18, 2005

Betterhumans - Gene Therapy Brings Dead Bone to Life

Betterhumans - Gene Therapy Brings Dead Bone to Life:
"Around dead bone, they found minimal expression of genes that create two key proteins in living bone, RANKL and VEGF.

Based on this discovery, they loaded the genes into a harmless virus, developed a way of freeze-drying a paste containing the virus and painted the paste onto bone grafts during surgery on mice."