News tagged with small interfering rnas


Research offers promising new approach to treatment of lung cancer

Researchers have developed a new drug delivery system that allows inhalation of chemotherapeutic drugs to help treat lung cancer, and in laboratory and animal tests it appears to reduce the systemic damage ...

Cancer created May 22, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanoparticles boost therapeutic potential of siRNA drugs

New classes of drugs that can silence specific genes, such as small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), offer great therapeutic potential. But the specific delivery of siRNAs to target cells to exert their effects ...

Medical research created Apr 10, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists identify new strategy to fight deadly infection in cystic fibrosis

New research suggests that lowering excessive levels of a protein in immune system cells could be a strategy to clear an infection that is deadly to patients with cystic fibrosis (CF).

Medical research created Jan 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Targeted gene silencing drugs are more than 500 times more effective with new delivery method

Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are a potent new drug class that can silence a disease-causing gene, but delivering them to a target cell can be challenging. An innovative delivery approach that dramatically ...

Medical research created Dec 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Mount Sinai grad student, 25, named to Forbes '30 Under 30' in Science and Healthcare

Jillian Shapiro, a third-year graduate student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been named to the second annual Forbes "30 Under 30" list in "Science and Health." The honorees "reflect the way that the he ...

Medical research created Dec 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research scores advance in manipulating T-cells

(Medical Xpress)—Until recently, medical researchers had little hope of experimentally manipulating naïve T cells to study their crucial roles in immune function, because they were largely impenetrable, ...

Medical research created Oct 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Precise and persistent cell sabotage: Control of siRNA could aid regenerative medicine, cancer therapy

Some of the body's own genetic material, known as small interfering RNA (siRNA), can be packaged then unleashed as a precise and persistent technology to guide cell behavior, researchers at Case Western Reserve University ...

Medical research created Aug 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Naturally occurring protein has a role in chronic pain

Researchers in France and Sweden have discovered how one of the body's own proteins is involved in generating chronic pain in rats. The results, which also suggest therapeutic interventions to alleviate long-lasting pain, ...

Medical research created Jun 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast