Ultrasound-mediated gene transfer

[Jan R. Krähling]

Dear all,

I have read a most interesting article on ultrasound-mediated gene 
transfer "Sonoporation" (Fischer et al. 2006 Journal of Biotechnology 
122, 393-411.) It seems that you can use a standard laboratory sonicator 
commonly used to disrupt cells to transfect cells with expression 
plasmids. Seemingly this method works especially well with neuronal 
cells or related cells such as PC-12. Does anyone have practical 
experience or a  good protocol in addition to the one described by 
Fischer? For me it seems too good to be true that you can replace the 
expensive transfection reagents by this simple methods. Is it in your 
opinion worth to try?

Thanks for your kind help
Jan