• Filter By:
• Specialty
• Source
• Condition
• Cancer
• Infectious Disease
• Drug
• Training
• Management
• Procedure
• Therapy
• Vaccine
• Nutrition
• Country

miR-Synth: a computational resource for the design of multi-site multi-target synthetic miRNAs
RNAi is a powerful tool for the regulation of gene expression. It is widely and successfully employed in functional studies and is now emerging as a promising therapeutic approach. Several RNAi-based clinical trials suggest encouraging results in the treatment of a variety of diseases, including cancer. Here we present miR-Synth, a computational resource for the design of synthetic microRNAs able to target multiple genes in multiple sites. The proposed strategy constitutes a valid alternative to the use of siRNA, allowing the employment of a fewer number of molecules for the inhibition of multiple targets. This may represe...
Source: Nucleic Acids Research - May 19, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Lagana, A., Acunzo, M., Romano, G., Pulvirenti, A., Veneziano, D., Cascione, L., Giugno, R., Gasparini, P., Shasha, D., Ferro, A., Croce, C. M. Tags: Computational Biology Source Type: research