The natural RNAi mechanism can be directed by either short interfering RNA (siRNA) or microRNA (miRNA). 1 There are four key steps in the RNAi pathway. When miRNA acts as the guide for RNAi, only a ...

The spotted bronze head and shiny black-and-yellow-striped wings of the Colorado potato beetle are an unwelcome sight for farmers. Though larvae and adults feed primarily on potato plants, the ...

Farmers sow. Plants grow. Insects eat. Plant pests have been a fundamental challenge to farming since the beginning. Farmers have used a variety of methods for thousands of years to control the pests.

Functional annotation of human genes has been hampered by the lack of tools to probe gene function systematically and quickly. RNA interference (RNAi) offers the cell biologist an approach to perturb ...

It was not until 2018 that the US FDA approved the first therapy developed using the technique. Since then, there’s been a steady, but slow, number of RNAi treatments coming into the market. The ROBO ...