Ark Thera files for shRNA tech patent

9 March 2009

UK-listed Ark Therapeutics Group has filed a patent application relating  to a breakthrough small hairpin RNA (shRNA)-based technology that allows  both the up- and down-regulation of multiple genes via the firm's  existing method of gene delivery. The discovery, which was made by Ark's  scientists in Finland, represents a major advance on existing RNA  silencing technology and has the potential for use in the treatment of  a variety of human diseases involving defective genes, either where the  genes do not work or are overactive.

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