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Those siRNAs Just Need a Thicker Skin

Apr 17, 2008

From Wired, here's a blog post from Aaron Rowe on five promising treatments for cancer. He includes gene knockdown -- the challenge, he says, lies in how fragile siRNA molecules are -- as well as epigenetic drugs on his list. (Entries from the non-genomic world are viruses, small molecules, and vaccines.)

 

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