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Researcher Develops RNA-DNA Hybrid That May Offer Advantages Over siRNA

Mar 26, 2004
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Call it a new form of hybrid vigor. Allen Christian, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher, has come up with a new type of RNAi molecule that he says is not only able to silence target genes with greater specificity than siRNAs, but is capable of being introduced into cells without transfection and may be effective against bacterial genes.

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