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Bandages That Can Turn Off Genes Encourages Wound Healing

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-in-one-healing dept.

MTorrice writes "Medical researchers think specially tailored RNA sequences could kill tumor cells or encourage wound healing by turning off genes in patients' cells. Now researchers have developed a nanocoating for bandages or other medical materials that could deliver these fragile gene-silencing RNAs right where they're needed. The team hopes to produce a bandage that shuts down genes standing in the way of healing in chronic wounds."

4 of 54 comments (clear)

  1. Re: That would be a Godsend by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    You asshole

  2. What's being 'silenced' here? by waterbear · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Obviously one crucial element in the safety/efficacy of anything like this is the identity of the gene/protein involved:-- what exactly is being 'silenced' here and taken away from the wound-healing process?

    Whatever, it's not mentioned in either the /. summary or either of the links referred to. So there's no real clue in the story, or in the links, about whether the application of this delivery technique is likely to be beneficial or the reverse.

    Informative reportage?

  3. Re:That would be a Godsend by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    And the inability to appropriately use the space bar?

    What a cunt you are.

  4. This is spectacular. by bmo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Foot ulcers in diabetics and bed sores in the elderly are really hard to deal with. Even when blood sugar is under control, these things take a long time to heal. You don't ever want one to happen to you.

    Slapping a specially treated bandage on a wound can *genetically* encourage healing? This is tantamount to finding out that you can cure scurvy with vitamin C to the affected people.

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    BMO