by Public Library of Science Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Reducing the methylation of a key messenger RNA can promote migration of macrophages into the brain and ameliorate symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in a mouse model, according to a new study publishing March 7 in the open access journal PLOS Biology by Rui Zhang of Air Force Medical...
by Steve Lundeberg, Oregon State University Depiction of mRNA therapy. Credit: OSU College of Pharmacy A study led by an Oregon State University pharmaceutical sciences researcher has produced a proof of principle for a new “universal” means of treating COVID-19. Gaurav Sahay and collaborators at OSU and the Texas Biomedical Research Institute demonstrated in a...
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY IMAGE: LEFT TO RIGHT: PROFESSOR JULIAN CHEN AND HIS COLLABORATORS FROM THE SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, DHENUGEN LOGESWARAN AND KHADIZA AKHTER. CREDIT: MARY ZHU For the very first time, a study led by Julian Chen and his group in Arizona State University’s School of Molecular Sciences and the...
by Antonio Regaladoarchive page February 5, 2021 SELMAN DESIGNhide On December 23, as part of a publicity push to encourage people to get vaccinated against covid-19, the University of Pennsylvania released footage of two researchers who developed the science behind the shots, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, getting their inoculations. The vaccines, icy concoctions of fatty spheres and genetic...
