Loss-of-function approaches such as gene knock-out or gene silencing are extremely powerful strategies for assigning function to a gene and for mapping the interconnections of intracellular regulatory pathways. Post-transcriptional gene silencing can be obtained via activation of a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) mediated mechanism termed RNA interference (RNAi). RNAi has revealed an extremely versatile tool in Biomedical research that can be used in both single silencing gene experiments and in large-scale Functional Genomics studies and has been used as a tool […]