[extropy-chat] mitochondrial quantum leap

[The Avantguardian]

--- Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Today our team confirmed our previous preliminary
> data showing that we
> can achieve robust mitochondrial transfection and
> protein expression
> in mitochondria of live rats, after an injection of
> genetically
> engineered mitochondrial DNA complexed with our
> protofection
> transfection agent. A significant fraction of cells
> in the brain is
> transfected with this single injection even though
> we so far did not
> optimize the dose.
> 
> This achievement has important implications for
> medicine: protofection
> technology works in vivo, and should be capable of
> replacing damaged
> mitochondrial genomes.

Wow. Not to mention customizing entirely new ones. Can
I get some mitochodria with a few extra copies of the
SOD gene? :)

The Avantguardian 
is 
Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

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