Delivering cutting-edge peer-reviewed research on using nucleic acids and related compounds to alter gene expression for therapeutic purposes. A new article in the peer-reviewed journal Nucleic Acid ...
Researchers from Osaka University have developed a novel approach to target nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT), an enzyme implicated in cancer progression, using antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) ...
The specificity of antisense approaches is much debated and has hampered their development for clinical therapeutics. In the August 14 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Yee Cho and ...
Treatments that target a fragment of the mutant protein that causes Huntington's disease might be more effective than treatments—now in clinical trials—that target the whole protein but leave this ...