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|Articles|October 19, 2022
On the way towards personalized medicine: Gene therapy AAV characterization by CE and LC-MS
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As more gene therapy applications make inroads into research and clinical practice, the development and safe manufacturing of the therapeutic products involved have demanded more from associated analytical technologies. One of the most widely used gene-therapy vectors is AAV, and key technologies for the characterization of AAVs include CE and LC-MS.
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