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, ...

The RNA inhibitor olpasiran significantly reduces a type of "bad cholesterol" that's associated with a high risk of ...

Utrophin increase in muscle cells after transcriptional adaptation normalises cell function in Duchenne muscular ...

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.

Biotechnology company Omega Therapeutics hit Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware on Monday, listing more than $140 million in debt on its petition. The company also filed a form with the U.S. Securities ...

While billions pour into pharmaceutical biotech, officials and experts warn there’s much less private investment in products more relevant to the military, like body armor materials, anti-corrosion ...

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 ...

Preclinical studies have shown their potential to reduce inflammation and modulate immune responses in diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.

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 from the ...