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At the heart of its promise as a powerful therapeutic drug lies the exquisite selectivity of RNAi: like the fabled “magic bullet,” an RNAi sequence seeks out and destroys its target without affecting other genes.
Reviewers pan this mock-documentary about a director named Alan Smithee who destroys the negatives for his forthcoming film.
Some have argued that training community individuals to deliver health information destroys their ability to function as natural helpers [ 17 ] . In the North Carolina Save Our Sisters Project, lay health advisors are the functional unit of one outreach initiative and are trained as natural helpers.
If a lie, by definition, becomes a lie only in the context of communication (speech, writing, gesture), and if a lie is immoral because it destroys the fundamental trust that makes communication possible--if all this is so, can a lie be told in a context where communication is understood to have no objective value to begin with?
The T-to-C transition polymorphism at the translation initiation codon of the human VDR gene not only destroys a Fok I site but also abolishes the first translation initiation codon of this gene.