Lipoproteoplex (IMAGE)

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Lipoproteoplex

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A new hybrid compound called a lipoproteoplex, developed in the lab at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, uses a lipid "container" for transfection -- the transportation of material past a cell membrane -- and an easy-to-make protein capsule that can bind both small-molecule chemotherapeutic drugs and genetic technology, such as short interfering RNA (siRNA), that can "silence" genes that propagate disease states.

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