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Important discoveries within the past decade,which demonstrated the ability of small duplex RNAs to profoundly regulate gene expression, have opened the door to a new era of gene regulation research while providing a powerful tool to specifically down-regulate genes. Originally discovered in the nematode C. elegans, RNA interference, or RNAi, is defined as the sequence specific silencing of gene expression...