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To fight disease, it pays to have the right hit man Boston Globe How do you find an effective hit man? It's a dilemma biologists have been struggling with for more than a decade now, looking for brutish molecules that can whack diseases before diseases whack you. Specifically, what they want is a way to hack up, or "cleave," the RNA that carries the messages that will give you diabetes, Parkinson's, Lou Gehrig's disease, or any number of other undesirable conditions. But much sooner, perhaps within five to 10 years, drugs based on RNA interference could be on the market, injected directly into an organ or into the bloodstream to slow the growth of tumors or or fight viruses like HIV or hepatitis C.
—Posted: December 29, 2003
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