Boosting Cancer Treatment: NUS Researchers Develop Efficient ‘Food Delivery Service’ for Transporting Cancer-Fighting Genes

Boosting Cancer Treatment: NUS Researchers Develop Efficient ‘Food Delivery Service’ for Transporting Cancer-Fighting Genes

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have developed a scalable, non-viral technology that efficiently delivers genetic material into human immune cells. The platform, called Nanostraw Electro-actuated Transfection (NExT), uses tiny hollow nanostructures and electrical pulses to insert a wide variety of biomolecules -- proteins, mRNA and gene-editing tools -- into immune cells with high efficiency and minimal disruption.