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Vessel maneuvers: Zinc fingers promote angiogenesis

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Zinc-finger transcription factors can be engineered to target specific genes. Now this approach is applied successfully to a clinically relevant setting in mice—promotion of angiogenesis. (pages 1427–1432)

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Figure 1: Designer fingers.

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    Renata Pasqualini & Wadih Arap

  2. The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA

    Carlos F. Barbas III

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Pasqualini, R., Barbas, C. & Arap, W. Vessel maneuvers: Zinc fingers promote angiogenesis. Nat Med 8, 1353–1354 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1202-1353

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