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siRNAs meet their match

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A new study addresses how to design highly specific small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) capable of distinguishing between similar variants of the same gene.

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  1. Schwarz, D.S. et al. Designing siRNA that distinguish between genes that differ by a single nucleotide. PloS Genet. 2, 1307–1318 (2006).

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Potash, J. siRNAs meet their match. Nat Methods 3, 876 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth1106-876

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