Question

How can RNAi be utilized in medical treatments for disease?

Options

• By enhancing immune cell production

• By silencing genes that cause cancer or treating bacterial, viral, and parasitic diseases

• By activating dormant genes

• By stimulating antibody synthesis

Answer 1

RNAi can silence specific gene sequences, which can be utilized to silence genes that cause cancer. Additionally, it is used in treatments for bacterial, viral, and parasitic diseases by targeting and degrading pathogenic gene transcripts or host genes required by pathogens.