In principle, mRNA vaccines are ideal for health emergencies as they can be quickly mass produced using a template. The problem is that current cell-based template production methods take too long, ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a rare hereditary disease that is associated with progressive muscle wasting. The ...

New gene therapy modalities, such as CRISPR guide RNA (single guide ribonucleic acid [sgRNA]) and messenger RNA (mRNA), ...

The Penn Center for Innovation has enabled world-changing advancements, from mRNA vaccines to CAR T cancer treatments.

On Friday, February 7, a hearing took place in the Montana state legislature on a bill that would ban the use of mRNA vaccines in humans. The bill was sponsored by State Representative Greg Kmetz with ...

The model calculations in the present study show that proteins are therefore preferably synthesized in the branched, tapering ...

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed into mRNA precursors, is correctly assembled into mature mRNA. Splicing is a ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers found that the neuronal energy conservation program determines the location and ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the ...

Protein synthesis is vital for life, translating genetic information from DNA to functional proteins through transcription ...

During translation, ribosomes can pause on the nucleic acid. Researchers showed that collisions from incoming proteins get ...