The RNAi Cure?
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Description: A NOVA ScienceNOW science program by PBS feature the possible applications for RNAi therapy. Provides animations of key biological processes and mechanism of RNA Interference.
In 2002, on the heels of the discovery that RNA interference existed in human cells, the usually reserved journal proclaimed RNAi the "breakthrough of the year." Here was a part of the body's natural immune system that, it seemed, might be enlisted to fight almost every disease imaginable—brain disorders like Huntington's and Alzheimer's, deadly viral infections, cancer—every condition in which "silencing" rogue genes might stop disease onset or progression.
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| Page title: | NOVA | The RNAi Cure? |
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| Description: | Will RNAi, already in human clinical trials, treat a host of diseases, including AIDS, cancer, and Huntington's? |
| IP-address: | 54.242.34.5 |