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Alnylam’s rare disease drug shines in trial, paving way for a brand-new class of medicines

The positive results in the clinical trial help validate Alnylam's $7 billion market valuation and pave the way for more drugs based on RNAi technology.

The age of RNA interference drugs has arrived.

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals announced positive results Wednesday from a closely watched phase 3 clinical trial of patisiran, the company’s lead drug designed to treat a rare nerve disorder known as familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP.)

Most importantly, the safety profile of patisiran in the FAP study looks clean, assuaging concerns raised by toxicity reported

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