These sequences are extremely prone to mutations and rank among the most functionally important regions in the entire human ...

A newly discovered organism is challenging the fundamental definition of life, blurring the lines between viruses and ...

Creative Biolabs optimizes the mRNA drug development model by integrating sequence design, RNA-protein interaction ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a first-of-its-kind mRNA system that switches on therapeutic genes preferentially inside targeted cells-an advance ...

CAG repeats can get longer over time as the HD gene is used, like the growing potholes and cracks in an old road. New ...

Pfizer’s mRNA flu vaccine outperformed the standard flu shot in a Phase 3 clinical trial, according to results published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The vaccine uses the same ...

Researchers at MIT have just developed a new lipid nanoparticle that super-enhances the effectiveness of the mRNA vaccine in mice to a hundred times its stand-alone effectiveness, thus offering ...

Proteins are synthesized through two processes involving DNA: transcription, which converts DNA into mRNA; and translation, where ribosomes read the mRNA and sequentially link amino acids to form ...

Vaccines that resemble viruses generally produce a stronger immune response, while mRNA versions are much quicker and cheaper to make. Now we are getting the best of both worlds, in the form of mRNA ...

1 mRNA and Cancer Laboratory, Unit of Biomedical Research on Cancer, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (INCan; National Institute of Cancer), Mexico City, Mexico 2 Tecnologico de Monterrey, Escuela ...

Deborah Fuller receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. She is co-founder and a scientific advisor for two biotech companies developing nucleic acid vaccine technologies that are not ...

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya claims the federal government recently canceled millions of dollars’ worth of mRNA research contracts because the general public does not ...