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Study reveals how a common virus eludes the immune system
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Viruses have numerous tricks for dodging the immune system. In the September 7, 2009 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology, Stagg et al. reveal a key detail in one of these stratagems, identifying a protein that enables cyto-m ...
Hitting cancer where it hurts
May 28, 2009 |
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Two studies in the May 29th issue of Cell, a Cell Press publication, have taken advantage of new technological advances to search for and find previously unknown weaknesses in a hard to treat form of cancer. The discoveries lend n ...
The future of personalized cancer treatment: An entirely new direction for RNAi delivery
May 17, 2009 |
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In technology that promises to one day allow drug delivery to be tailored to an individual patient and a particular cancer tumor, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, ...
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 ...
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RNAi shows promise in gene therapy, researcher says
Feb 19, 2007 |
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Three years ago Mark Kay, MD, PhD, published the first results showing that a biological phenomenon called RNA interference could be an effective gene therapy technique. Since then he has used RNAi gene therapy to effectively ...
Inhalable form of gene-therapy takes aim at lung cancer and inflammatory lung disease
Jun 09, 2008 |
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A new inhalable form of gene therapy — based on technology recognized in the 2006 Nobel medicine prize, shows increasing promise for treating lung cancer, infectious diseases and inflammatory lung disease, scientists have ...
Getting on your nerves... and repairing them
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Feb 15, 2007 |
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Here is some news that will certainly get on people's nerves: In a study to be published in the March 2007 issue of The FASEB Journal, scientists from East Carolina University report that a key molecular mechanism, RNA interference ...
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 ...
RNA interference found in budding yeasts
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Some budding yeast species have the ability to silence genes using RNA interference (RNAi). Until now, most researchers thought that no budding yeasts possess the RNAi pathway because Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the protoypical ...
Researchers reveal types of genes necessary for brain development
Jul 07, 2008 |
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Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Brandeis University have successfully completed a full-genome RNAi screen in neurons, showing what types of genes are necessary for brain development. Details of the screen and ...
Novel genetic screens provide panoramic views of cellular systems
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Oct 16, 2008 |
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Despite the rise of systems biology, many geneticists continue to probe genes in isolation. They even use cutting-edge RNA interference (RNAi) technology to knock down one gene at a time. This approach often yields a narrow ...
The RNA drug revolution -- a new approach to gene therapy
Jan 23, 2008 |
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RNA interference (RNAi) represents an innovative new strategy for using small RNA molecules to silence specific genes associated with disease processes, and a series of review articles describing the state-of-the-art and ...
Team develops safe, effective RNA interference technique
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Apr 28, 2008 |
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A team of researchers from MIT and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has developed safe and effective methods to perform RNA interference, a therapy that holds great promise for treating a variety of diseases including ...
A fantastic voyage brought to life
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 15, 2009 |
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Ever since the 1966 Hollywood movie, doctors have imagined a real-life Fantastic Voyage -- a medical vehicle shrunk small enough to "submarine" in and fix faulty cells in the body. Thanks to new research by ...
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