Study first to show that RNA interference can facilitate vaccine development

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 06:57 in Biology & Nature

Pharmaceutical companies and universities are racing to develop drugs that use the gene silencing mechanism known as RNA interference to treat a host of diseases. Now, a new study opens up an entirely new possibility for this powerful tool: Researchers at the University of Georgia have demonstrated for the first time that RNA interference can be used as a tool in the development of vaccines...

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