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Published online 9 May 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030505-8
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RNA hopes hyped?
DNA's cousin will yield therapies, but not yet.
The potential of DNA's cousin, RNA, to provide new therapies for conditions from cancer to AIDS may have been over-hyped, experts warned at a symposium last week in Black Point Inn, Maine.
"The field has over-promised and under-delivered with respect to the therapeutic applications," said Gerry Joyce of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.
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