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  • Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UMass Amherst
Your genetic material instructs your cells to produce the proteins encoded in it. Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

Helping cells become better protein factories could improve gene therapies and other treatments – a new technique shows how

Daniel N. Hebert, UMass Amherst and Lila Gierasch, UMass Amherst

Gene therapies and vaccines are often injected into muscle cells that are inefficient at producing desired proteins. Making them work more like liver cells could lead to better treatment outcomes.

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