Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing production of certain messenger RNAs and appear to help cells respond to ...

This is an important and solid study that examines the role of TFAM, a protein that helps maintain mtDNA, in mtDNA mutator mice. The authors have demonstrated that TFAM's counteractive role in mtDNA ...

Interneurons have a multipolar structure that allows them to receive multiple signals and then send a unified command to another neuron. In this way, you can think of interneurons as traffic ...

There are a significant number of words, phrases and acronyms that appear when talking about race and ethnicity which often change depending on the context of the conversation. Language is ...

Once we gene sequence that cancer tumor, you can design a vaccine for every individual person to vaccinate them against that cancer. And you can make that vaccine, that mRNA vaccine robotically ...

The U.S. government has handed Moderna almost $600 million to accelerate its work on various bird flu vaccines as well as work on mRNA vaccines for other influenza strains with pandemic potential.

Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), 1-2 Owashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8634, Japan ...

The candidate uses the same basic mRNA technology implemented in Moderna’s covid-19 vaccines to accomplish this. mRNA vaccines prompt the body’s cells to produce a target protein that’s then ...

There have been 67 confirmed human bird flu cases in the U.S. since April 2024. Moderna has been awarded approximately $590 million from the federal government to help speed up the development of ...