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RNA Therapeutics: A Novel Approach to Treating Diseases

Roots Analysis

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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The use of base editing in stem-cell based therapies

Drug Discovery World

A second generation CRISPR-Cas gene editing system, base editing, reduces the risk of potentially deleterious effects associated with other gene editing technologies, presenting a safe and effective means of editing cells for therapeutic applications. 2016/17 saw the emergence of this novel CRISPR-Cas9-based approach.