GAYLE DE MARIA
Chimica Oggi-Chemistry Today / TKS Publisher

The global oligonucleotide synthesis market is expected to reach $1,712.1 million by 2019 from $1,070.7 million in 2014, growing at a CAGR of 9.8% from 2014 to 2019. The global oligonucleotide synthesis market is categorized on the basis of products and services, applications, end users, and geography. The synthesized oligonucleotides segment is expected to register the highest growth rate in the oligonucleotide synthesis market during the forecast period, owing to an increasing number of applications for synthesized oligonucleotides in research, diagnostics and therapeutics; and a growing demand for custom oligos. Major factors contributing to growth of the oligonucleotide synthesis market include growing R&D expenditure in pharmaceutical and biotech companies; emerging applications of oligos in molecular diagnostics and synthetic biology; and evolving significance of RNA-interference oligos in therapeutics and diagnostics. Furthermore, government support and venture capital funding are other major factors that will boost the growth of this market (1).
Focusing on the science part, antisense oligonucleotides or anti-microRNAs are short single chain oligonucleotides ...