Nanotechnology for Nucleic Acid Delivery: Methods and Protocols

by Manfred Ogris

Book Overview

Nanotechnology and nucleic acid based therapies are two emerging fields in science whose combination has the potential to improve quality of life for patients suffering from various diseases that can so far only be treated in an unsatisfactory way. Nucleic acids offer the potential for highly selective treatment of such diseases or the highly specific modulation of gene expression with RNA interference. A key issue for successful nucleic acid therapies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1627031391
• ISBN13: 9781627031394
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Humana
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 10.3"