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The future of personalized cancer treatment: An entirely new direction for RNAi delivery

In technology that promises to one day allow drug delivery to be tailored to an individual patient and a particular cancer tumor, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Seizing control of South American parasite

Scientists battling Leishmania, a parasite second only to malaria in the number of deaths it causes, have identified an important vulnerability in the genetic code of one major parasite strain.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Nov 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Using plants to silence insect genes in a high-throughput manner

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, are now using a procedure which brings forward ecological research on insects: They study gene functions in moth larvae by manipulating ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Hitting cancer where it hurts

Two studies in the May 29th issue of Cell, a Cell Press publication, have taken advantage of new technological advances to search for and find previously unknown weaknesses in a hard to treat form of cancer. The discoveries lend n ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study reveals new role for RNA interference during chromosomal replication

At the same time that a cell's DNA gets duplicated, a third of it gets super-compacted into repetitive clumps called heterochromatin. This dense packing serves to repress or "silence" the DNA sequences within -- which could ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists find the structure of a key 'gene silencer' protein

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have determined the three-dimensional atomic structure of a human protein that is centrally involved in regulating the activities of cells. Knowing the precise ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new gene silencing platform -- silence is golden

A team of researchers led by Rutgers' Samuel Gunderson has developed a novel gene silencing platform with very significant improvements over existing RNAi approaches. This may enable the development and discovery of a new ...

Biology /

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0