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Antisense drugs help us fight some types of cancer and viral diseases. The drugs consist of short mRNA strands that are complementary in base sequence to mRNAs linked to the diseases. Speculate on how antisense drugs work.
 
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Antisense drugs interact with their intended target based on information in the genetic code. Overproduction or abnormal production of proteins is implicated in cancer and many diseases. Antisense drugs will stop the translation of these proteins by preventing the mRNA coding for them from reaching the ribosome. They do this by binding (hybridizing) to the target mRNA, which is degraded by enzymes and thus not translated.
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