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T Cells Capture Bacteria by Transinfection from Dendritic Cells
Published on: January 13, 2016
Purloined mechanisms of bacterial immunity can cure muscular dystrophy
James G Tidball1, Carmen Bertoni2
1Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology Program, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7239, USA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1732, USA; Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7239, USA.
Abstract:
Myriad strategies have been explored to compensate for the lack of dystrophin or to skip mutations that cause the lethal disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). A new study shows that gene editing strategies used by bacteria can be applied in zygotes of a mouse model of DMD to correct the genetic defect that causes muscular dystrophy (Long et al., 2014).
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