RNA Interference: The short answer

Brenda L. Bass is in the Department of Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Utah, 50 North Medical Drive, Room 211, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132, USA.
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Nature 411(6836):p 428-429, May 24, 2001.

One way of seeing what a gene does is to block its messenger RNA and note the effects. New work should make the approach more broadly applicable.