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antisense therapy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.24 in modern English

Syllables
an-ti-sense ther-a-py
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

antisense therapies (plural)

Questions

What does antisense therapy mean?
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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