News tagged with oligonucleotide
Gene signal GS-101 data shows safe and effective inhibition of ophthalmic blood vessel growth
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Gene Signal, a company focused on developing innovative drugs to manage angiogenesis based conditions, today announced the publication of interim results from a phase II study suggesting that the antisense oligonucleotide ...
Researchers find possible treatment for spinal muscular atrophy
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy is the second-leading cause of infant mortality in the world.
A new gene silencing platform -- silence is golden
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Feb 15, 2009 |
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A team of researchers led by Rutgers' Samuel Gunderson has developed a novel gene silencing platform with very significant improvements over existing RNAi approaches. This may enable the development and discovery of a new ...
A new gene silencing platform -- silence is golden
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Feb 08, 2009 |
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A team of researchers led by Rutgers' Samuel Gunderson has developed a novel gene silencing platform with very significant improvements over existing RNAi approaches. This may enable the development and discovery of a new ...
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Gold Nanoparticles Delivery Platinum Warheads to Tumors
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cisplatin is one of the most powerful and effective drugs for treating a wide variety of cancers, but serious side effects ultimately limit the drug's use and effectiveness. Now, however, researchers have ...
Designing drugs and their antidotes together improves patient care
Oct 04, 2009 |
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Imagine a surgical patient on a blood-thinning drug who starts bleeding more than expected, and an antidote that works immediately - because the blood thinner and antidote were designed to work together. Researchers at Duke ...
Researchers identify protein -- telomere interactions that could be key in treating cancer
Aug 31, 2009 |
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A team of researchers from The Wistar Institute have shown that a large non-coding RNA in mammals and yeast plays a central role in helping maintain telomeres, the tips of chromosomes that contain important genetic information ...
Scientists Use DNA Scaffolding To Build Tiny Circuit Boards
Aug 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Today, scientists at IBM Research and the California Institute of Technology announced a scientific advancement that could be a major breakthrough in enabling the semiconductor industry to ...
Genetic source of muscular dystrophy neutralized
Jul 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center have found a way to block the genetic flaw at the heart of a common form of muscular dystrophy. The results of the study, which were ...
Strong immune response to new siRNA drugs in development may cause toxic side effects
May 20, 2009 |
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Small synthetic fragments of genetic material called small interfering RNA (siRNA) can block production of abnormal proteins; however, these exciting new drug candidates can also induce a strong immune response, causing toxic ...
Cystic fibrosis testing -- next steps
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Three reports describing advances in cystic fibrosis genetic testing appear in the May 2009 issue of The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.
Researchers take first look at the genetic dynamics of inbreeding depression
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Researchers have taken a first look at the broad genetic changes that accompany reproductive declines in inbred populations. Although scientists have known for more than a century that small populations of ...
New tool probes function of rice genes
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Oct 09, 2008 |
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A new tool for investigating the rice genome has been developed by researchers at UC Davis led by Pamela Ronald, professor of plant pathology. The inexpensive, publicly-available rice DNA microarray covers nearly all the ...
Nanoparticles Detect Telomerase Activity
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 24, 2008 |
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Telomerase, an enzyme that prevents chromosomes from shortening when they divide, is widely suspected of playing a key role in making cancer cells immortal. Though researchers have developed a variety of methods for measuring ...
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