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Biotech Industry Losing Interest in the Therapeutic Potential of RNAi

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

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By James DeGiulio -- When Andrew Fire and Craig Mello (at right) unraveled the mechanism of RNA interference (RNAi) and were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2006 for their efforts, RNAi was predicted to become the next great source of new therapeutics. Pharmaceutical companies moved quickly to devote research funding and personnel to developing what appeared to be a novel way to target nearly any protein involved in nearly any disease. However, five years -- and billions of dollars in research and development -- later, it appears that RNAi is falling out of favor in the industry, which is moving...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on March 22, 2011 (boomark / email).

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