The La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology will develop San Diego's first Center for RNAi screening -- a breakthrough genomics technology that will further enhance San Diego's reputation as a national research leader and provide the local biomedical community ready access to the Nobel-Prize winning technology. The National Institutes of Health awarded the La Jolla Institute $12.6 million to develop the Center. "RNAi (RNA interference) allows scientists to explore new ways of disrupting disease processes based on altering gene function," said Mitchell Kronenberg, Ph.D...

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