SAN FRANCISCO
— By fine-tuning the genetic code in a snippet of RNA, researchers thwarted the
hepatitis B virus in mice without causing apparent toxicity.
When delivered into the liver by a different, harmless
virus, the customized RNA blocked more than 95 percent of the production of an
enzyme that the hepatitis B virus needs to replicate.
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