Recent news stories have noted that RNAi technology, once thought so promising among many in the life science community and especially big pharma, is now falling out of favor. The biggest hit took ...

The "sense" strand is used in transcription to RNA, so it is the one that makes sense to decode. The "antisense" is the complimentary strand, so it is just the opposite.

Gene silencing by RNA interference (RNAi) has become a powerful tool for functional genomics. In the January 25 Science, Tijsterman et al. report a gene-silencing method induced by short (25 ...

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 ...