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Yes, typical journalist hype by this hack Steven Salzberg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Salzberg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Salzberg). Ah, "the
by ihodes 16y ago
Yes, typical journalist hype by this hack Steven Salzberg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Salzberg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Salzberg). Ah, "the Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park"? Well nevermind.
And while yes, RNAi has been around for a while, nothing like this has been done with the technology. This is a breakthrough.
- bbgm 16y agoIddo Friedberg has a nice review of the paper as well http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2010/05/29/a-cure-for-ebola/ http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2010/05/29/a-cure-for-ebola... The key for me is this part "this is the first time that siRNA treatment has been shown to work in primate models of a human disease." That's a big deal under any circumstances.