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What if, instead of spending years optimizing small molecule chemistry to treat just one disease,
there really was a magic button to switch off any gene we chose?
In that case, we could treat
dozens of deadly diseases,
from Alzheimer’s to diabetes
to Huntington’s disease.
Welcome to the world of #siRNA therapy.
The story of siRNA begins in 1990,
when the scien…