oligonucleotide
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of oligonucleotide
First recorded in 1940–45; oligo- + nucleotide
Example Sentences
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Avidity is developing gene-based drugs that use an emerging technology known as antibody oligonucleotide conjugates to deliver RNA treatment to muscles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025
Similarly, a different antisense oligonucleotide linked to BCC10 greatly reduced another gene, Mapt, which encodes the tau protein and is a target for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024
The announcement came a week after drugmakers Biogen and Ionis Pharmaceuticals said they are terminating development of BIIB105, an antisense oligonucleotide for ALS that showed disappointing results in an early-stage clinical study.
From Science Magazine • May 22, 2024
Ionis’s drug, called an antisense oligonucleotide, is a snippet of single-stranded DNA.
From Scientific American • Jan. 16, 2018
Then, copying an oligonucleotide of just 20 base pairs took a chemist two years.
From Nature • May 18, 2011
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