Class of antibiotics can enhance gene-silencing tool
A way to turn off one gene at a time has earned acceptance in biology laboratories over the last decade. Doctors envision the technique, called RNA interference, as a tool to treat a variety of diseases if it can be adapted to humans.
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The first authors of the paper are Emory postdoctoral fellows Ge Shan and Yujing Li. Contributions also came from colleagues at the University of Chicago, Scripps Research Institute at Florida, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Peking University.
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