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Buoyed by In Vitro Data, UCLA Researcher Says Stem Cell-Based RNAi Rx May Fight HIV

Sep 30, 2005
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Many academic and private-sector RNAi researchers believe that HIV is one of the most promising targets for RNAi-based therapeutic intervention. One of these is Irvin Chen, director of the UCLA AIDS Institute, who has recently begun testing a stem cell-based RNAi treatment in monkeys, and presented in vitro data at the first meeting of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society last week in New York City.

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