How to Use oligonucleotide in a Sentence
oligonucleotide
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To that end, the researchers turned to something called antisense oligonucleotides.
—Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
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The newest oligonucleotide drugs are designed to tackle rare diseases.
—Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
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The company's encoding starts with a library of dozens to hundreds of short pieces of DNA called oligos (short for oligonucleotide).
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2022
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But any chain that is short—usually 15 to 20 nucleotides—is considered an oligonucleotide.
—Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2020
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But one patient advocacy group has publicly shared that Yu’s team has designed an oligonucleotide for a toddler with ataxia-telangiectasia, a neurodegenerative disorder, and hoped to begin to treat her this fall.
—Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 9 Oct. 2019
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An alternative treatment, drugs based on chemicals known as antisense oligonucleotides, is in clinical trials.
—Nicholas Wade, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2015
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Upon receipt, the sequence is run through biosafety and biosecurity checks, and ultimately constructed through the enzymatic assembly of shorter oligonucleotide chains.
—Jeffrey Marlow, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2015
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The drug is a synthetic genetic molecule — known as an oligonucleotide — similar to Biogen’s therapy for spinal muscular atrophy, Spinraza.
—Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Dec. 2022
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Krainer is co-founder of Stoke Therapeutics, a company focused on treating severe genetic disease using antisense oligonucleotides.
—Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2019
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