antisense therapy

noun

A treatment approach that uses synthetic short strands of DNA or RNA known as antisense oligonucleotides to specifically bind to the messenger RNA (mRNA) produced by a target gene.

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Meanings

nounantisense therapy (countable and uncountable, plural antisense therapies)

plural antisense therapies

  1. countableuncountablebiologyA treatment approach that uses synthetic short strands of DNA or RNA known as antisense oligonucleotides to specifically bind to the messenger RNA (mRNA) produced by a target gene.
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