Team develops safe, effective RNAi technique

A team of researchers from MIT and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals has developed safe and effective methods to perform RNA interference, a therapy that holds great promise for treating a variety of diseases including cancer and hepatitis.
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A Comprehensive Protein Map of a Stem Cell

Researchers have successfully identified over 5,000 proteins that are present in embryonic stem cells, tripling the size of previous results and in the process creating the largest quantified protein map to date.
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Artificial cell can make its own genes

An “artificial cell” capable of synthesising genes and making them into proteins has been developed by researchers in the US.
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