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Antisense drug

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A medication containing part of the non-coding strand of messenger RNA (mRNA), a key molecule involved in the translation of DNA into protein.

Antisense drugs hybridize with and inactivate mRNA.

This stops a particular gene from producing the protein for which it holds the recipe.

Antisense drugs have been developed or are 'in the pipeline' to treat eye disease in AIDS, lung cancer, diabetes and diseases such as arthritis and asthma with a major inflammatory component

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