[extropy-chat] mitochondrial quantum leap

[Jacques Mathieu]

I read the posts on this mailing list fairly often
(when I have some free time), and I have to say that
this is one of the best posts I have read. It's
refreshing to see someone actually making an effort to
realize one of the goals that many in this group dream
of. Congratulations on your research. I'm doing some
work of my own at Rice University and I hope it gives
such promising results.

Jacques Mathieu

--- 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.
> 
> Stay tuned.
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