Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 21, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
...increasingly popular in fundamental and applied research since their first use in the early 90’s to genetically...inefficient at infecting non-dividing cells and so researchers set out to create a better, safer system.
Unlike...than the first one and can be used routinely in a research laboratory. The risk of generating RCL is low ...technique, there’s always a small chance that a researcher could infect him or herself with the oncogenic... generation lentiviral vectors can be used for research and for clinical purposes, however improving the...safety of these vectors is still an active area of research due to the possibility that mutation or recombination...lentiviruses with human tropism can still infect the researcher and insert into her/his genome - this is a biosafety...