Exploring the alternatives
Splicing investigators see medical applications and a possible new role in gene expression
Sep 25, 2003
Researchers agree that recent findings about alternative splicing point toward the therapeutic applications that lie in its future. But the newest news about this ubiquitous mechanism for making many mRNAs from a single gene—more than 38,000, in one extreme
"I believe it will be possible to generate therapeutic interventions based on alternate splicing," Donald Rio, of the University of California at Berkeley, told
Practical medical applications are perhaps 20 years away, according to Fyodor...