The future of personalized cancer treatment: An entirely new direction for RNAi delivery
...nded RNA fragments called siRNAs. But delivery of sirnas has proven difficult due to their size and negativ...ntial for PTDs as a delivery mechanism for getting sirnas into cancer cells. He and his team had previously... tumor-suppressor proteins. "Simply adding the sirnas to a PTD didn't work, because...Biologist finds plant polymerases IV and V are really variants of Polymerase II
...equences, whereas Pol V makes longer RNAs that are thought to pair with the sirnas at the affected chromosomal sites. Pikaard and his colleagues' wor...a hybrid plant or animal. That study is one of the first to demonstrate how sirnas can play a role in controlling the dosage of vital genes, and not just harm...Study first to show that RNA interference can facilitate vaccine development
...ve vaccines for other common viral diseases, such as influenza and measles, and may help control outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases. "Making sirnas today is relatively simple because most disease-causing viruses have been sequenced or have closely-related cousins with conserved regions in their ge...Industry Experts and Global Regulators to Discuss Oligonucleotide-Based Therapeutics Issues
...ory Affairs, Logical Therapeutics, Inc. Sessions will discuss: sirnas Non-Hybridization Dependent Oligonucleotides Antisense Oligonucleot...Substance and Drug Product Novel Chemistry Clinical Applications of sirnas Clinical Opportunities for Manipulating MicroRNAs Pathways Clinical...Protein thought to promote cancer instead functions as a tumor suppressor
...As (ribonucleic acids) known as "small interfering RNAs" or siRNAs, that are each capable of inactivating a specific gene. The researchers mixed these sirnas with specially engineered human cancer cells that glowed when the cancer-causing malfunction is activated. When an siRNA made a cell glow, the researc...Researchers identify and shut down protein that fuels ovarian cancer
...e strands of RNA that in turn are "read" by ribosomes to produce proteins. sirnas are short, double-stranded bits of RNA capable of halting that process. The...ent of Experimental Therapeutics, and colleagues are building an arsenal of sirnas capable of silencing genes that produce cancer-promoting proteins. They pac...Previous Claims of siRNA Therapeutic Effects Called into Question by Report in 'Human Gene Therapy'
...at incorporate suitable controls to differentiate the disease-modulating effect of an siRNA from its ability to stimulate an innate immune response. sirnas have been highly touted for their ability to target very specifically and selectively the disease-causing factors in a range of disorders, from viral ...Nastech Completes Enrollment of Phase 2 Clinical Trial of PYY3-36 Nasal Spray to Treat Obesity
...cific protein through use of small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), to develop a new class of therapeutics by identifying key protein targets, designing the sirnas that will turn off the production of the targeted proteins, and creating a formulation for the delivery of the therapeutics. Nastech and its collabora...Strong immune response to new siRNA drugs in development may cause toxic side effects
...ilable free online at www.liebertpub.com/oli sirnas are duplex structures comprised of short oligonucl...e discovery that naturally occurring and synthetic sirnas can effectively prevent expression of a disease gene sparked intense interest in developing sirnas as drugs. However, depending on the structure and ...Small molecules might block mutant protein production in Huntington's disease
...short lengths of RNA called small interfering RNA, or siRNA, to interfere with CAG repeats. In cells from Huntington's patients, the PNAs, LNAs and sirnas decreased the amount of mutant protein produced, in some cases up to 100 percent. The effect was greatest when the compounds interfered with long leng...Nanotechnology holds promise for STD drug delivery
..."We wanted to develop a new strategy of delivering sirnas with a FDA-approved material." As their name suggests, sirnas interfere and knock out the function of genes in h...obes that may cause STDs. The researchers designed sirnas to target a gene expressed widely in the lining of...CSHL researchers explain process by which cells 'hide' potentially dangerous DNA segments
...n's Research Hospital, Memphis, has now found that sirnas cannot do the job of heterochromatin assembly by t...am stumbled across Chp1 mutants that would produce sirnas but could not assemble heterochromatin. "These...able to generate siRNAs. This work reveals that sirnas cannot by themselves establish heterochromatin whe...New therapeutic strategy could target toxic protein in most patients with Huntington's disease
... "That takes away the biggest worry we had, which was that the number of sirnas we would have to test in order to have impact on the disease would be too l...atients who could be helped, he said. The next problem became developing sirnas that could discriminate between target mRNAs and non-target. "That turned o...Ambati study published in PNAS
...system, a critical component of immune responses. The new study found that sirnas block not only blood vessels but also lymphatic vessels. In the cornea, th...lco and Arturo Brunetti, researchers in Naples, Italy, they also found that sirnas generically block blood and lymphatic vessel growth in muscle tissue as wel...Scientists at CSHL discover mobile small RNAs that set up leaf patterning in plants
... like morphogens These native, or endogenous, small RNAs are called trans-acting small interfering RNAs (ta-siRNAs). Like microRNAs and endogenous sirnas present in other organisms, they regulate gene activity via a mechanism called RNA interference. Because of their newly discovered properties in leaf ...Scientists at CSHL discover mobile small RNAs that set up leaf patterning in plants
... like morphogens These native, or endogenous, small RNAs are called trans-acting small interfering RNAs (ta-siRNAs). Like microRNAs and endogenous sirnas present in other organisms, they regulate gene activity via a mechanism called RNA interference. Because of their newly discovered properties in leaf ...Researchers identify gene linked to aggressive progression of liver cancer
...son Endowed Scholar in Cancer Research at the VCU Massey Cancer Center. sirnas are small inhibitory RNAs that can specifically inhibit targeted mRNA and protein production. sirnas may be used in the future for targeted inhibition of AEG-1 in patients, Sar...Using Validated siRNAs in Functional Genomic Assays
Collections of siRNAs targeting key human genes are ideal for studying protein function in cells. To identify genes involved in a given cellular process, cells can be transfected with different siRNAs and assayed f...Optimize Transfection of siRNAs for RNAi
By Rich Jarvis, Associate Scientist Low transfection efficiency is the most frequent cause of unsuccessful gene silencing experiments. We have found that by optimizing cell density, transfection agent amount, and siRNA concentra...Deliver siRNAs Into Primary Cells
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Electroporation of Primary, Neuronal and Other Hard-to-transfect Cells Dmitriy Ovcharenko, Rich Jarvis, Kevin Kelnar, David Brown, Ambion, Inc. RNA interference (RNAi) is a powerful exp...IMPROVE SILENCING SUCCESS: siRNAs THAT WORK BETTER!
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Dmitriy Ovcharenko (Research Associate II, Ambion, Inc.) Gene silencing using small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) has become a powerful method for studying gene function. Human primary cells ...Cenix-Designed siRNAs for 95% of Human and Mouse Genomes
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