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A cholesterol connection in RNAi

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RNA interference — RNAi for short — might provide a way to silence disease-associated genes, but problems of delivery have hampered progress. Those problems may have been solved, at least in animal studies.

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Figure 1: Silencing genes the RNAi way.

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