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Cash round sets up trial of InteRNA’s microRNA for cancer

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InteRNA is focusing on the development of gene-silencing drugs based on microRNA, naturally occurring, non-coding strands of RNA that are thought to regulate gene expression in cells.

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RNA Therapeutics: A Novel Approach to Treating Diseases

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Coding RNAs include messenger RNA (mRNA) and short interfering RNA (siRNA), which encode proteins and silence gene expression, respectively. RNA interference (RNAi) Therapeutics : Fundamentally, RNAi is a natural process of post-transcriptional gene silencing, involving short strands of nucleic acids.

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