RNAi shows promise in gene therapy, Stanford researcher says
SAN FRANCISCO -- Three years ago Mark Kay, MD, PhD, published the ...first results showing that a biological phenomenon called RNA ...interference could be an effective gene therapy technique. Since then ...he has used RNAi gene therapy to effectively shut down the viruses ...that cause hepatitis and HIV in mice. ... With three human RNAi gene therapy trials now under way - two in ...macular de...Tool developed to silence genes in specific tissues using RNAi
Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center say they have jumped a significant hurdle in the use of RNA interference (RNAi), believed by many to be the ultimate tool to both decode the function of individual genes in the human genome and to treat disease. ... ...Reporting in the journal Genes and Development, investigators have developed a simple way to use the RNAi approa...