RNA interference

Nov 28, 2025

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals has reached a transformational milestone with the FDA’s approval of REDEMPLO (plozasiran) on November 18, 2025—marking the company’s first FDA-approved medicine and the first-ever FDA-approved siRNA therapeutic for familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS) treatment. This historic approval r...

Nov 21, 2022

RNA interference (RNAi) is a fundamental gene-silencing pathway in eukaryotic cells that involves an enzyme called dicer cleaving long pieces of double-stranded RNA into shorter fragments called siRNAs that can cleave complementary mRNA sequences with the help of the RISC complex and argonaute. RNA interference ...