Science, medicine, and the future: RNA interference

British Medical Journal

Volumn 328, Issue 7450, 2004, Pages 1245-1248

  Downward, Julian ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONSENSUS; DATA BASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICINE; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCIENCE; TREATMENT INDICATION; ANIMAL; GENE TRANSFER; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; RNA INTERFERENCE; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 2442669339     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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