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Nature Medicine  1, 481 - 483 (1995)
doi:10.1038/nm0595-481

Gene gun and other non-viral approaches for cancer gene therapy

Ning-Sun Yang1, 3 & Wenn H. Sun2

  1Department Cancer Gene Therapy, Agracetus Inc., 8520 University Green, Middleton, Wisconsin 53562, USA, and

  2Division of Dermatology, Children's Memorial Hospital, Lurie Cancer Center at Northwestern University, 2300 Children's Plaza/107, Chicago, Illinois 60614

  3Correspondence should be addressed to N.−S.Y


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