By binding to RNA, antisense prevents proteins involved in disease from ever being created.
Previous research found that enzyme-modified milk could stop Streptococcus mutans from binding to tooth enamel.
The outermost part of this layer prevents other particles, like dirt and grime, from binding to it.
These biotech drugs, all of which must be injected, work by binding to a molecule called the tumor necrosis factor.
When they hooked up with CD-2, the decoys prevented the real LFA-3 from binding to and activating the T cells.
PCBs do their damage by binding to a protein called the aryl hydrocarbon receptor, or AHR, thus stopping it working properly.
Nearly all drugs work by binding to proteins that help cause disease.
Neurosearch's compound stops cocaine from binding to the receptor by getting in the way and gradually brings dopamine levels back to normal.
Injected into the arm or leg, Enbrel travels through the body, binding to free TNF molecules to prevent them from docking with the real receptors.
An antisense drug, designed to look like the original DNA, could interrupt that process by binding to a complementary stretch of RNA and destroying it.
McKillop insisted on the convenience of an oral drug, but the scientists found it impossible to devise a pill that would block EGF from binding to its receptor.
They recognize scents by binding to molecules on particular odorants.
Xolair is a monoclonal antibody to IgE that works like a Star Wars missile defense for allergies, binding to and inactivating excess IgE before it can trigger an attack.
According to the study, the nicotine vaccine led to a 12.5% reduction in nicotine binding to nAChRs, which was linked to a 23.6% decrease in the amount of nicotine available to enter the brain after vaccination.
By 1992 Grotendorst, who had done work at the University of South Florida and is now at the University of Miami, concluded that it was CTGF, not TGF-beta, that triggers collagen production by binding to specific cell receptors.
The Razer Nostromo's all-new configurator software is as easy to use as it is deadly, allowing gamers to conveniently customize all the buttons with any game command or key binding to open up a massive repertoire of killer combinations right under their fingertips.
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If approved, countries would have committed to binding agreements to reduce CO2 emissions to keep the planet from heating by more than 2 degrees Celsius.
Essentially, IPAB would substitute an unelected body for government, enabling it to make binding recommendations to reduce Medicare spending.
Last March, the European Union's member countries agreed to a binding target to boost overall renewable energy use by 20% before 2020.
In papers filed in the Western District Court of Wisconsin on Thursday, Apple and Google expressed broad agreement to use binding arbitration to resolve their issues surrounding standards essential patents.
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For ardent gun-control advocates, it is an opportunity to press for a binding effort to reduce small-arms stocks around the world.
Labor activists hope the string of disasters, including the latest fire, will pressure retailers to sign onto a binding agreement to improve building safety in Bangladesh.
But since assuming control of Congress in January with what leaders called a mandate to change course in Iraq, Democrats have struggled to craft acceptable, binding legislation to force the administration to bring U.S. troops home.
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The advent of the Backbench Business Committee has already allowed such groups to bring a non-binding motion to the floor of the House, but this ruling ratchets up their ability to get Commons votes that are a bit more than merely symbolic.
Specifically, he believed that it contractually required him to give to specific charities or foundations, versus morally binding him to donate at least half his wealth during his lifetime, or at his death, to causes he saw fit.
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In 2011 France gave common-or-garden lawyers the right to create binding documents similar to those endorsed by notaries.
While a class action can have the virtue of assuring equal justice to all class members, it can also have the vice of binding them to something less than justice.
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In March, when the initial proposal was set forth, I was skeptical of this attempt to put India Inc. on a pedestal by making an example and binding it to report corporate philanthropy initiatives.
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