CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alnylam Biotherapeutics, a division of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced today the presentation of new data at the IBC 6th Annual Cell Line Development and Engineering conference held in San Francisco, California from June 21 – 24, 2010. Alnylam established Alnylam Biotherapeutics to focus on the application of RNAi technology in manufacturing processes for biotherapeutics. The new results describe the discovery of highly effective novel delivery lipids (NDLs) that efficiently deliver siRNAs to manufacturing cell lines with no measurable adverse effects on cell density or viability. Furthermore, the NDLs demonstrate durable target gene silencing following a single dose, improved protein quality, and scalability to at least 40 liters.
