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With RNA interference, gene silencing roars into labs

Although you don’t hear a thing, there is a raucous party going on inside each one of your cells. Each minute of every day, molecules are murmuring information from one to the next in an ancient version of the game of telephone.

AS THE WORM TURNS. A normal planarian glides over a composite background of defects that scientists generated by applying the technique of RNA interference to other planarians.