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Study Questions Specificity of RNA Interference
RNA interference (RNAi) is gaining attention as a powerful new tool to silence defective genes in certain diseases such as cancer, but a new study suggests that the technique may not be as specific as researchers believe.
The discovery of short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) made RNAi possible in mammalian cells, and it was thought that siRNAs could overcome some of the inherent problems associated with RNAi, such
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