RNA interference — RNAi for short — might provide a way to silence disease-associated genes, but problems of delivery have hampered progress. Those problems may have been solved, at least in animal studies.
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Rossi, J. A cholesterol connection in RNAi. Nature 432, 155–156 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/432155a
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