{"id":16187,"date":"2026-10-19T20:27:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=16187"},"modified":"2026-10-19T20:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:27:34","slug":"merck-kgaas-1-1b-silence-therapeutics-buyout-brings-rna-drug-for-rare-blood-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=16187","title":{"rendered":"Merck KGaA\u2019s $1.1B Silence Therapeutics Buyout Brings RNA Drug for Rare Blood Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/10\/merck-kgaa-silence-therapeutics-acquisition-polycythemia-vera-divesiran-sirna-rna-interference-sln\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Silence Therapeutics acquisition gives Merck KGaA a drug ready for a pivotal test in the blood disorder polycythemia vera. Silence\u2019s RNA therapy offers a different approach and a potential dosing advantage over a Takeda Pharmaceutical product recently approved in this indication.  <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/10\/merck-kgaa-silence-therapeutics-acquisition-polycythemia-vera-divesiran-sirna-rna-interference-sln\/\">Merck KGaA\u2019s $1.1B Silence Therapeutics Buyout Brings RNA Drug for Rare Blood Cancer<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Silence Therapeutics acquisition gives Merck KGaA a drug ready for a pivotal test in the blood disorder polycythemia vera. Silence\u2019s RNA therapy offers a different approach and a potential dosing advantage over a Takeda Pharmaceutical product recently approved in this indication. The post Merck KGaA\u2019s $1.1B Silence Therapeutics Buyout Brings RNA Drug for Rare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}