a phenomenon called RNA interference or RNAi. The apparently widespread nature of RNAi in eukaryotes, ranging from trypanosome to mouse, has sparked great interest from both applied and ...

In 1998, Andrew Fire and Craig Mello published a groundbreaking study demonstrating that double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) could silence genes in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. This discovery laid the ...

It has only been 5 years since Tom Tuschl and colleagues showed that the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway was functional in cultured mammalian cells, and that it was possible to trigger this ...

Renaissance BioScience Co-CEO John Husnik shares insight on the company’s yeast-based RNA-interference biopesticide ...