When the drug fomivirsen was approved by the FDA in 1998 for the treatment of cytomegalovirus retinitis in patients with HIV/AIDs, it was hailed as a milestone in drug discovery because it was the ...

Thank you for your article on antisense 1 and for letting us know that the subject is very much alive. Although antisense is an "RNA therapeutic" in that the target is mRNA, actually in almost all ...

Courtesy of Antisense Therapeutics Ltd. Antisense strategies use polymeric nucleic acids or nucleic acid analogs to bind to and silence specific messenger RNAs. The silencing can be caused either by ...

The function of non-coding RNA in the cell has long been a mystery to researchers. Unlike coding RNA, non-coding RNA does not produce proteins – yet it exists in large quantities. A research team from ...

Bacteriophages, or phages for short, are viruses that infect bacteria. Using phages therapeutically could be very useful in ...

The purchase gives Biogen full access to an implantable device that could help patients avoid the repeat lumbar punctures ...

Patients receiving a kidney transplant and who are positive for BK virus (BKV) are at risk of losing their transplant due to BKV reactivation. At this time, there are no antiviral options available ...

DALLAS & MARTINSRIED, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE), a global specialty materials and chemical company, and Secarna Pharmaceuticals GmbH & Co. KG, a leading independent ...

Beyond the well-known mRNA vaccines for COVID-19, therapeutic RNAs are emerging in diverse medical fields, including cardiology, ophthalmology, infectious diseases, and hepatology. However, could they ...