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History of Antisense Oligonucleotides

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Antisense Therapeutics

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Medicine ((MIMM,volume 1))

Abstract

Biological science is a rapidly flowing experimental stream, at times encountering a dam that impedes further progress. At such a pomt, a single crack may induce a major breakthrough Discovery of the double helical structure of DNA in 1953 (1) caused such an event, with flooding of new information into the area now known as molecular biology.

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Zamecnik, P.C. (1996). History of Antisense Oligonucleotides. In: Agrawal, S. (eds) Antisense Therapeutics. Methods in Molecular Medicine, vol 1. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/0-89603-305-8:1

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