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A scientist is attempting to create a treatment for asthma. She knows that in people with asthma, their airways can become inflamed, or swollen, making it difficult to breathe. She knows that there are many genes responsible for this inflammation. She asks her team for ideas on how to treat asthma. You think RNA interference would work. Explain to her what RNA interference would do and the effect it would have on a patient with asthma. ( Science )

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RNA interference is the process of silencing the sequences of mRNA through siRNA. RNA interference process can be used to treat many diseases

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