Using RNA to interfere with a gene’s expression of disease-causing proteins is a validated therapeutic approach, but so far, the products in this drug class only address liver proteins. Reducing ...

RNA drugs are a new type of medicine that treat disease by influencing how cells use genetic information, rather than by ...

Lethal and rescuer genes are defined as genes that when inactivated result in cell death or enhanced cell growth, respectively. The ability to identify these genes in large-scale automated screening ...

Within each cell, there is a constant struggle between life-sustaining molecules and molecules that could hasten its demise. For the first time, scientists have created a molecule that can identify ...

LONDON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Britain's Ark Therapeutics said on Thursday it had filed a patent application for a new genetic technique that represents an advance in so-called RNA interference technology ...