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Scientists find new agent to fight genetic disorders -- Zorro-Locked Nucleic Acid

A new agent, "Zorro-LNA," may stop some genetic disorders in their tracks. An article appearing in The FASEB Journal's June 2007 issue describes how researchers developed Zorro-LNA to bind with both strands of a gene's DNA, effectively disabling it. This has clinical implications for virtually every condition caused or worsened by dominant defective genes, such as: Huntington's disease, familial high cholesterol, polycystic kidney disease, some instances of glaucoma and colorectal cancer, and neurofibromatosis, among others.

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