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Unusually for a virus, its genome is not a single piece of nucleic acid; instead, it contains seven or eight pieces of segmented negative-sense RNA, each piece of RNA containing either one or two genes, which code for a gene product (protein).
The European Commission (EC) 2003/63 directive states that a gene therapy medicinal product is essentially a piece of nucleic acid that is delivered either in vivo or ex vivo that can be prophylactic, diagnostic, or therapeutic.
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Small pieces of nucleic acid, known as siRNA, are one of the promising carriers for delivery of anticancer drugs.
It seems likely that all viruses trace their origins to cellular genes and can be considered as pieces of rogue nucleic acids.
They injected short pieces of the nucleic acid RNA engineered to shut off the DISC1 gene into cavities in the developing brains of mouse fetuses two weeks after conception.
The accelerating pace of nucleic acid sequencing allows scientists to read any organism's complete genetic code.
RNA is made by copying the base sequence of a section of double-stranded DNA, called a gene, into a piece of single-stranded nucleic acid.
RNAs from LCM-derived tissue pieces were immediately extracted using RNeasy Micro kit (Qiagen) according to the manufacturer's protocol for isolation of nucleic acids from microdissected cryosections.
But some of his ingredients, like the nucleotide building blocks of nucleic acids, are quite complex.
Principles of nucleic acid structure and function.
His ambition was to discover the enzymes that made RNA and DNA, which are polymers, or chains of nucleic acids.
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