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UNC Researchers Unveil Dual-Silencing RNAi Boosting Tumor Cell Killing Forty-Fold

The next phase focuses on in vivo validation alongside efforts to broaden the platform to three-gene targeting toward clinical development

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Overview

  • A chimeric inverted RNA interference molecule co-targets KRAS and MYC with tumor-directed delivery ligands, as detailed in the July 31 Journal of Clinical Investigation report
  • Laboratory assays showed the dual-silencing construct reduced cancer cell viability up to forty-fold compared with separate siRNAs
  • This design extends a prior KRAS G12V–specific delivery method to inactivate all KRAS mutations while concurrently silencing MYC
  • Researchers are preparing preclinical in vivo evaluations in animal models to assess efficacy and safety ahead of clinical translation
  • The flexible inverted siRNA architecture paves the way for expanded multi-gene targeting, including proof-of-concept efforts to silence three oncogenes simultaneously