The world’s first RNAi drug “born” for 20 years and will “explode” in the next 10 years.
In 1998, American scientists Andrew Fire and Craig Mello published a groundbreaking paper in Nature, confirming that double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) is the cause of post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) in nematodes. They call this phenomenon RNA interference (RNAi). The discovery of RNAi (Fig. 1) explains the confusing gene silencing… Continue Reading The world’s first RNAi drug “born” for 20 years and will “explode” in the next 10 years.