Mesothelioma Drug Trials

Rosetta Genomics this month announced that it has scaled back its work on a serum-based colon cancer-screening assay based on microRNA biomarkers, less than a year after the company said that commercialization of the test, dubbed miRscreen Colon, had become its top priority.

The National Institutes of Health last month said that roughly $2.5 million has been earmarked to fund projects using oligonucleotide-based methods of gene modification, chiefly RNAi, to research the prevention and treatment of oral and craniofacial disorders.