Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Sirna drug helps vision in blindness-risk patients - Yahoo! News

New ARMD Drug...
(Thanks to Freeze for the link)

Sirna drug helps vision in blindness-risk patients - Yahoo! News: "NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sirna Therapeutics Inc. on Tuesday said its experimental drug to treat the leading cause of blindness improved vision in almost half of patients in a small, early-stage trial, without causing any drug-related side effects.
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The Phase I trial results for the company's lead experimental drug, Sirna-027, are the first human clinical data ever presented for a medicine that employs a technology called RNA interference. Such drugs are designed to prevent disease-causing genes from making their designated proteins."

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