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that when delivered into cells again will activate this process of
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natural degradation of an existing messenger RNA.
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Of course,
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if you degrade the messenger RNA at a rapid rate
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then you'll stop expression of the cells.
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Now the nice thing about this is that the degradation mechanisms seem to persist for some period of time,
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beyond the time at which you deliver the double stranded RNA; whereas,
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obviously,
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this mechanism here is only going to exist for
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as long as the anti-sense sequence is present.
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So this might be a longer lasting,
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more permanent form of elimination of expression of a particular gene.