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Published online 1 December 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061127-15
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Could RNA interfere with prion disease?
Genetic treatment shows promise against scrapie.
Prion diseases have become the newest target for treatment with RNA interference (RNAi). The gene-silencing technique has been used to prolong the lives of mice infected with scrapie, a disease similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
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