RNAi is a natural process that occurs in plants and mammals, and involves genes producing messenger RNA (mRNA) which then control the production of proteins in the body. RNAi therapeutics turn off ...

Laura Bonetta reports. These molecules induce the sequence-specific silencing of genes by the process of RNA interference (RNAi) in a variety of organisms, including humans. The RNAi pathway was ...

Discover six hemophilia companies developing new treatments for the genetic bleeding disorder, from gene therapies to RNAi ...

Since its discovery 16 years ago, researchers have been eyeing RNA interference (RNAi)—a natural process of posttranscriptional silencing of genes by small fragments of the nucleic acid—for its ...

The discovery of RNAi dates back to the 1990s when researchers observed unexpected gene silencing in plants and fungi. In 1998, Andrew Fire and Craig Mello published a groundbreaking study ...

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have made an exciting discovery about how human cells make RNA, a molecule that carries important instructions inside our bodies.

Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is one of the most aggressive and deadly types of cancer, often linked to smoking. Although it ...

Based on the existing game Eterna, the NOVA RNA Lab is built around a series of puzzles. By exploring and finding potential solutions to these puzzles, users learn about the complex process of RNA ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), the leading RNAi therapeutics company, today highlighted the significance of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

In the process, DNA is transcribed into RNA and then translated into functional proteins that subsequently undergo folding to ...