Intradigm Announces Issuance of RNA Interference (RNAi) Patent Covering Potent siRNA Sequence
First Patent to be Issued from Among Intradigm's Large Collection of Pending siRNA Sequence Patents PALO ALTO, Calif., May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Intradigm Corporation, a leading developer of targeted, systemic RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, today announced the issuance of United States pa...Study first to show that RNA interference can facilitate vaccine development
Athens, Ga. - 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 ha...Scientists at CSHL uncover new RNA processing mechanism and a new class of small RNAs
A very small fraction of our genetic material--about 2%-- performs the crucial task scientists once thought was the sole purpose of the genome: to serve as a blueprint for the production of proteins, the molecules that make cells work and sustain life. This 2% of human DNA is converted into interm...Caltech engineers build first-ever multi-input 'plug-and-play' synthetic RNA device
PASADENA, Calif.--Engineers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a "plug-and-play" synthetic RNA device--a sort of eminently customizable biological computer--that is capable of taking in and responding to more than one biological or environmental signal at a time. ...Another LNA-based RNA Inhibitor Enters Clinical Trials
COPENHAGEN, March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Santaris Pharma announced today that the fourth LNA-based drug has been brought into the clinic. In the USA several patients with cancer have now been treated with the Company's Survivin inhibitor, which is jointly developed by Santaris Pharma and Enzon Pha...Isis Reports Strong Financial Results and Highlights for Second Quarter of 2009
...e Isis' technology. Isis co-exclusively licensed its single-stranded rna interference (ssRNAi) technology to Alnylam as part of a new strategic init... About Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Isis is exploiting its expertise in rna to discover and develop novel drugs for its product pipeline and for its pa...Schering-Plough Expands Vicriviroc Phase II Study in Treatment-Naive Patients With HIV
... from baseline in viral load (log10 HIV RNA) at week 48 of treatment. A key secondary efficacy endpoint is the proportion of patients with plasma HIV rna less than 50 copies/mL at week 48 of treatment. Atazanavir boosted by ritonavir was selected for use in this study because it is recommended ...Alfacell Provides Shareholder Update
...d as routine tool to detect the gene silencing via rna interference (RNAi) mechanism. Currently, there a...roduct candidate that works in a manner similar to rna interference (RNAi) through late-stage clinical tr...n RNase that overcomes the challenges of targeting rna for therapeutic purposes while enabling the develo...QuantiGene 2.0 RNA Quantification System
Description: QuantiGene 2.0 is a reagent and probe system used together to quantify gene expression knockdown. The high throughput plate based system is a sandwich nucleic acid hybridization assay that provides a unique approach for RNA detection and quantification, by amplifying the reporter signal using branc...Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 Ultrasensitive RNA Quantitative PCR
Description: ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' client...Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 RNA Quantitative PCR
Description: ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' client...Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 RNA Quantitative bDNA
Description: ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' client...New DNA and RNA aptamers offer unique therapeutic advantages
New Rochelle, NY, August 5, 2009A novel class of drugs composed of single strands of DNA or RNA, called aptamers, can bind protein targets with a high strength and specificity and are currently in clinical development as treatments for a broad range of common diseases, as described in a comprehens...New tool isolates RNA within specific cells
A team of University of Oregon biologists, using fruit flies, has created a way to isolate RNA from specific cells, opening a new window on how gene expression drives normal development and disease-causing breakdowns. While DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) provides an identical genetic blueprint in...MIT reels in RNA surprise with microbial ocean catch
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--An ingenious new method of obtaining marine microbe samples while preserving the microbes' natural gene expression has yielded an unexpected boon: the presence of many varieties of small RNAs snippets of RNA that act as switches to regulate gene expression in these single-celled...Researchers find snippet of RNA that helps make individuals remarkably alike
"No two people are alike." Yet when we consider the thousands of genes with frequent differences in genetic composition among different people, it is remarkable how much alike we are. Uniformity, or singleness of form, is not unique to humans but a general property of life. Biologists have lon...NYU Langone Medical Center researchers find micro RNA plays a key role in melanoma metastasis
NEW YORK CITY (February 5, 2009)Scientists have long wondered how melanoma cells travel from primary tumors on the surface of the skin to the brain, liver and lungs, where they become more aggressive, resistant to therapy, and deadly. Now, scientists from NYU Langone Medical Center have identifi...Scripps scientists develop first examples of RNA that replicates itself indefinitely
Now, a pair of Scripps Research Institute scientists has taken a significant step toward answering that question. The scientists have synthesized for the first time RNA enzymes that can replicate themselves without the help of any proteins or other cellular components, and the process proceeds ind...MIT reels in RNA surprise with microbial ocean catch
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--An ingenious new method of obtaining marine microbe samples while preserving the microbes' natural gene expression has yielded an unexpected boon: the presence of many varieties of small RNAs snippets of RNA that act as switches to regulate gene expression in these single-celled...Santaris Pharma Delivers Six LNA-Based RNA Inhibitors to Enzon Pharmaceuticals Ahead of Schedule
COPENHAGEN, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- As a testimony to the strength of Santaris Pharma's efficient Drug Discovery Engine, the Company announced today the completion of the delivery of six cancer target drug candidates to their collaboration partner Enzon Pharmaceuticals. All six drug candidate...LNA-Based RNA oligonucleotides Potently Inhibit Cancer microRNAs
COPENHAGEN, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Santaris Pharma announced today promising findings on the in vitro and in vivo activity of microRNA-targeted therapeutics against cancer developed on the basis of its proprietary Locked Nucleic Acid (LNA) Drug Platform. In both in vitro and in vivo models S...Nobel Laureates to Speak at Keystone Symposia RNA Silencing Conference
SILVERTHORNE, Colo., April 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology will convene its conference on "The Biology of RNA Silencing" on April 25, 2009 at the Fairmont Empress Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia. This will be an opportunity to hear two Nobel...Researchers develop new way to see single RNA molecules inside living cells
Biomedical engineers have developed a new type of probe that allows them to visualize single ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules within live cells more easily than existing methods. The tool will help scientists learn more about how RNA operates within living cells. Techniques scientists currently...Quant-iT RiboGreen RNA Assay Kit from Molecular Probes (Invitrogen)
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Description: 0.5-10 Kb RNA Ladder is suitable for sizing single-stranded RNA ranging from 0.5 kb to 10 kb in glyoxal or formaldehyde agarose gels. The ladder consists of nine bands in even increments (0.5 1 1.5 2 3 4 6 8 and 10 kb) to simplify size estimation. The 1.5 kb band is more intense than the other band...Luciferase Control RNA from Promega
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