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Volume 155, Number 16 (April 17, 1999)

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Misplaced DNA generates problems

Introducing DNA into a cell's cytoplasm triggers changes that can induce the immune system to destroy normal tissues.

References:

Suzuki, K. . . . and L.D. Kohn. 1999. Activation of target-tissue immune-recognition molecules by double-stranded polynucleotides. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96(March 2):2285.

Sources:

Leonard D. Kohn
National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Metabolic Diseases Branch
Cell Regulation Section
Bethesda, MD 20892

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 16, April 17, 1999, p. 250. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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