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Jinbo Huang1, Ana Palma Teixeira1, Ting Gao2

  • 1Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland.

Nature communications
|February 27, 2025
PubMed
概括

一种新型的合成基因开关,ASPIRIN,使用安全的阿司匹林来控制基因表达. 这个系统有效地调节糖尿病小鼠的胰岛素,为未来的组合基因疗法提供了一个有希望的平台.

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