Scientists in the US who do research on mRNA technology worry their funding may be cut under President Trump. mRNA technology is the basis for COVID- and other vaccines and could play a role in cancer ...

Misinformation about vaccines has swirled online since US President Donald Trump appointed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – who has ...

MRNA is found naturally in human cells. It is a molecule that carries genetic material and, in a vaccine, trains the body’s ...

Biotechnology researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) are working to further improve mRNA therapeutics, with ...

In the early 1990s, Katalin Karikó was obsessed with an idea most of her fellow scientists dismissed: Could messenger RNA, or ...

(Image: ttsz/iStock via Getty Images Plus) The Role of mRNA in Gene Expression Messenger RNA is an essential component of the gene expression process, which involves the conversion of genetic ...

Cancer metastasis, the spread of cancer to organs, is a major cause of cancer-related deaths. Once cancer spreads to multiple ...

Genes have to be expressed in the right place, at the time, and at the right levels. Scientists wanted to know more about how ...

When it reaches the lung, the mRNA then instructs the immune system to create transforming growth factor beta (TGF-b), a signaling molecule vital for the body to repair tissue. "This research ...

Cancer metastasis, the spread of cancer to organs, is a major cause of cancer-related deaths. Once cancer spreads to multiple ...

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