Grow and Eat Your Own Vaccines? Using Plants As mRNA Factories
The future of vaccines may look more like eating a salad than getting a shot in the arm. UC Riverside scientists are studying whether they…
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Nanoengineers Use Flu Virus Shells To Improve Delivery of mRNA Into Cells
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new and potentially more effective way to deliver messenger RNA (mRNA) into cells. Their…
mRNA Vaccines Highly Effective at Preventing Death From COVID-19 – But Less Effective at Preventing Infection
A target trial emulation study found that in an elderly population of U.S. veterans with high comorbidity burden, mRNA vaccine efficacy at preventing infection with…
Catch Me if You Can: Scientists Discover How mRNA Therapeutics Are Delivered Into Cells
Researchers have found where and how mRNA arrives in a cell to modify or deliver genetic information, a crucial process for the development of novel…
Breakthrough Could Lead to New Insights About Cancer Development
MicroRNAs, the tiny bits of genetic material that regulate gene expression, play a significant – but poorly understood – role in controlling the differences between…
MIT Engineers Create an Inhalable Form of Messenger RNA
Messenger RNA, which can induce cells to produce therapeutic proteins, holds great promise for treating a variety of diseases. The biggest obstacle to this approach…
Scientists Discover Genes for a Longer, Healthier Life
A team of scientists has discovered genes that are involved in physical aging. By influencing only one of these genes, the healthy lifespan of laboratory…
DNA Jumps Directly from the Cell’s Chloroplasts into its Nucleus
By subjecting cells to high selection pressure in a laboratory setting, researchers at Max Planck Institute were able to fast-forward gene transfer from the chloroplasts…
Behavior in Curious honeybees Similar to Humans
Experiments show that scouting bees, much like novelty-seeking humans, have differences in brain activity in genes related to dopamine and glutamate signaling between neurons. Genomic…