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- abbreviation
single-stranded RNA
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In the lab, writes its inventor, Todd Rider of MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, "we have demonstrated that Dracos are effective against viruses with DNA, dsRNA, positive-sense ssRNA, and negative-sense ssRNA genomes; enveloped and nonenveloped viruses; viruses that replicate in the cytoplasm and viruses that replicate in the nucleus; human, bat and rodent viruses; and viruses that use a variety of cellular receptors."
Modifying Mother Nature to Kill Nasty Viruses Matt Ridley 2011
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Family Orthomyxoviridae, within which the five influenza genera exist, are all are negative sense, single-stranded, segmented RNA viruses (ssRNA -).
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As evidence of our bullishness on ssRNA approaches, Atlas has also recently created another play aimed at targeting long non-coding RNAs
Forbes.com: News Bruce Booth 2011
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These ssRNA drugs can target many types of RNA, but one of the most exciting are the abundant non-coding RNAs like microRNA
Forbes.com: News Bruce Booth 2011
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The company, currently in stealth mode, will be leveraging lots of the emerging insight around the pharmacology of ssRNA approaches.
Forbes.com: News Bruce Booth 2011
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Its worth noting the other players are also pushing the field of ssRNA approaches to miR-based targets.
Forbes.com: News Bruce Booth 2011
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Another big piece of ssRNA news is right around the corner hopefully: FDA approval of Isis'
Forbes.com: News Bruce Booth 2011
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Its become clear over the past few years that these ssRNA drugs can block these microRNAs very efficiently.
Forbes.com: News Bruce Booth 2011
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Genome: infectious,11kb ssRNA, +ve polarity Virus is inactivated by heat and disinfectant, containing detergent or lipid solvent.
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These viruses have a linear positive-sense ssRNA genome of ~26-27 kb, encoding a large replicase polyprotein that is expressed from the genomic RNA, and several additional proteins that are expressed from a nested set of 3'-coterminal subgenomic RNAs.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Andrew Firth 2009
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