TaconicArtemis Announces Publication in PNAS: Inducible Gene Silencing in Transgenic Rats via RNAi

COLOGNE, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TaconicArtemis GmbH, a subsidiary of Taconic today announced the publication of a scientific breakthrough achieved in a collaboration with the Universities Goettingen and Wuerzburg (Germany). For the first time it is now possible to inactivate disease-related genes in an inducible and reversible fashion in transgenic rats as rodent model organisms. These important results have now been published in the top class scientific journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” of the United States (PNAS, Reference:http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/11/18/0806213105.abstract?sid=4a9a1ee2f57f-4425-9392-97a85bb15178