Nucleic acid therapeutics is a growing field aiming to treat human conditions that has gained special attention due to the successful development of mRNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2. Another type of nucleic acid therapeutics is antisense oligonucleotides, versatile tools that can be used in multiple ways to target pre-mRNA and mRNA. While some years ago these molecules were just considered a
Antisense oligonucleotides represent a novel therapeutic platform for the discovery of medicines that have the potential to treat most neurodegenerative diseases. Antisense drugs are currently in development for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease, and multiple research programs are
In theory, the human genome is large enough to keep its roughly 20,000 genes well separated. In practice, genes are clustered; even more puzzling, in many cases both DNA strands of a protein coding gene are transcribed. The resulting natural antisense transcripts can be a blessing and curse, as many appreciate, or simply transcriptional trash, as others believe. Widespread evolutionary
The nature of the dsRNA byproducts synthesized from the sequence of interest (3’-extended vs. antisense) will also be a factor in deciding which approach to reduce the generation of dsRNA will
The key breakthrough came when Fire and Mello 1, who had also observed that either sense- or antisense-orientated RNAs inhibited gene function, asked whether injection of both the sense and the
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