antisense therapy

English

Noun

antisense therapy (countable and uncountable, plural antisense therapies)

  1. (medicine, genetics) A treatment approach that uses synthetic short strands of DNA or RNA known as antisense oligonucleotides to specifically bind to the messenger RNA (mRNA) produced by a target gene.
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