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Nature 450, 1117-1120 (13 December 2007) | doi:10.1038/4501117a; Published online 12 December 2007
Open Innovation Challenges
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Efficient Chromosome Doubling: Plant Cell Division
The Seeker is looking for an efficient chromosome doubling method in plants and in particular, metho...
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Fast Growth of Transformed Soybean Shoots
A method for accelerating growth of soybean shoots is desired.
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- Stanford University School of Medicine
- Stanford, CA 94305
Systems and Cellular Neuroscientists
- University of Texas at Dallas
- Dallas, Texas, United States
Small RNAs: Delivering the future
Nathan Blow1
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Drugs to treat diseases from cancer to AIDS could soon rely on short strands of RNA for their effects. But scientists must first work out how to navigate these fragments around the body. Nathan Blow reports.
The remarkable ability of short sequences of synthetic RNA to interfere with messenger RNA and thereby silence the activity of specific genes has proved incredibly helpful to geneticists wrestling with genetic function. And the push to harness this RNA interference (RNAi) for therapeutic use is now beginning to make headway.
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