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How Rainwater Helped Stabilise Early Cells, Enabling Life's Complexity on Earth
Recent research led by Aman Agrawal, in collaboration with experts from the University of Chicago and University of Houston, uncovers the potential role rainwater played in stabilising protocells on early Earth. Their findings show how this helped prevent RNA leakage and uncontrolled mixing, allowing the formation of stable genetic material. This n...
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New AI Model To Boost Patient Response To Cancer Therapy
The new tool DeepPT, developed by researchers at Australian National University (ANU), predicts a patient's messenger RNA (mRNA) profile. This mRNA -- essential for protein production -- is also the key molecular information for personalised cancer
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What Are mRNA Vaccines That Earned Two Scientists Nobel Prize In Medicine?
This year's Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to scientists for discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
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Katalin Kariko, Drew Weissman Get Nobel Prize For Medicine
Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for groundbreaking Covid-19 vaccines.
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"Exciting Idea": In A First, Scientists Recover Ribonucleic Acid From Extinct Animal
Scientists have for the first time recovered Ribonucleic acid (RNA) from an extinct species, the Tasmanian tiger, raising hope for the resurrection of animals once thought lost forever, Stockholm University researchers told AFP.
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Asteroid Discovery Suggests Ingredients for Life on Earth Came From Space
Two organic compounds essential for living organisms have been found in samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu, buttressing the notion that some ingredients crucial for the advent of life arrived on Earth aboard rocks from space billions of years ago. Scientists said on Tuesday they detected uracil and niacin in rocks obtained by the Japanese Sp...
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Covid Infection Alters Genetic Material Of Cells: Study
Scientists have shown for the first time that infection by SARS-CoV-2 changes the functioning of host cell RNA, according to a study.
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Researchers Identify RNA Precursors in Molecular Clouds Located in the Centre of the Milky Way
An international team of researchers have spotted traces of an organic class of molecules at the centre of the Milky Way which are precursor to molecules essential for life. It is believed that originally life was based on only RNA (ribonucleic acid) on Earth while DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and protein enzymes evolved later. RNA is capable of per...
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New Technique for Imaging mRNA Molecules Allows Study of RNA Synthesis in Brains of Live Mice
A team of researchers, led by a University of Minnesota Twin Cities faculty member, have developed a new technique that gives scientists a window into RNA synthesis in the brain of a mouse while it is still alive. Scientists can now image mRNA molecules in the brains of living mice, as part of a technique that could be used by neurobiologists for v...
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UK On Polio Alert: What You Need To Know About The Disease
Poliomyelitis (polio) is a devastating disease that historically has caused paralysis and death around the world. It is caused by polioviruses, small RNA viruses that can damage cells in the nervous system.
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New Study Reveals How Marine Viruses May Aid in Mitigation of Climate Change
A new study suggests how 5,500 marine RNA virus species may help push carbon absorbed from the atmosphere to permanent storage on the ocean floor. The effort aims to learn more about the organisms that live in the ocean and do the majority of the work of absorbing half of the human-generated carbon in the atmosphere and producing half of the oxygen...
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IIT Jodhpur Researchers Identify COVID-19 RNA Variations And Their Implications
The scientists have also studied the fixation of these intra-host variations into extra-host variations and mutations that lead to variants. The results of the two-phase study have been published in the journal "Nucleic Acid Research".
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HIV Vaccine Tests Using mRNA Technology Begin In US
Testing in humans of an HIV vaccine that uses messenger RNA technology has begun, the biotech firm Moderna and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative said Thursday.
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New RNA-Based Therapy Protects Mice From Covid Virus, Variants: Study
Researchers have identified an RNA molecule that stimulates the body's early antiviral defence system, and can protect mice from a range of variants of CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
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One Vaccine Makes More Antibodies Than Another. Does It Matter?
Ten months ago, the results of large clinical trials appeared almost too good to be true: Two messenger RNA vaccines reduced symptomatic Covid-19 cases by more than 90% in almost every group that got them.
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How Rainwater Helped Stabilise Early Cells, Enabling Life's Complexity on Earth
Recent research led by Aman Agrawal, in collaboration with experts from the University of Chicago and University of Houston, uncovers the potential role rainwater played in stabilising protocells on early Earth. Their findings show how this helped prevent RNA leakage and uncontrolled mixing, allowing the formation of stable genetic material. This n...
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New AI Model To Boost Patient Response To Cancer Therapy
The new tool DeepPT, developed by researchers at Australian National University (ANU), predicts a patient's messenger RNA (mRNA) profile. This mRNA -- essential for protein production -- is also the key molecular information for personalised cancer
-
What Are mRNA Vaccines That Earned Two Scientists Nobel Prize In Medicine?
This year's Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to scientists for discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
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Katalin Kariko, Drew Weissman Get Nobel Prize For Medicine
Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for groundbreaking Covid-19 vaccines.
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"Exciting Idea": In A First, Scientists Recover Ribonucleic Acid From Extinct Animal
Scientists have for the first time recovered Ribonucleic acid (RNA) from an extinct species, the Tasmanian tiger, raising hope for the resurrection of animals once thought lost forever, Stockholm University researchers told AFP.
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Asteroid Discovery Suggests Ingredients for Life on Earth Came From Space
Two organic compounds essential for living organisms have been found in samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu, buttressing the notion that some ingredients crucial for the advent of life arrived on Earth aboard rocks from space billions of years ago. Scientists said on Tuesday they detected uracil and niacin in rocks obtained by the Japanese Sp...
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Covid Infection Alters Genetic Material Of Cells: Study
Scientists have shown for the first time that infection by SARS-CoV-2 changes the functioning of host cell RNA, according to a study.
-
Researchers Identify RNA Precursors in Molecular Clouds Located in the Centre of the Milky Way
An international team of researchers have spotted traces of an organic class of molecules at the centre of the Milky Way which are precursor to molecules essential for life. It is believed that originally life was based on only RNA (ribonucleic acid) on Earth while DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and protein enzymes evolved later. RNA is capable of per...
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New Technique for Imaging mRNA Molecules Allows Study of RNA Synthesis in Brains of Live Mice
A team of researchers, led by a University of Minnesota Twin Cities faculty member, have developed a new technique that gives scientists a window into RNA synthesis in the brain of a mouse while it is still alive. Scientists can now image mRNA molecules in the brains of living mice, as part of a technique that could be used by neurobiologists for v...
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UK On Polio Alert: What You Need To Know About The Disease
Poliomyelitis (polio) is a devastating disease that historically has caused paralysis and death around the world. It is caused by polioviruses, small RNA viruses that can damage cells in the nervous system.
-
New Study Reveals How Marine Viruses May Aid in Mitigation of Climate Change
A new study suggests how 5,500 marine RNA virus species may help push carbon absorbed from the atmosphere to permanent storage on the ocean floor. The effort aims to learn more about the organisms that live in the ocean and do the majority of the work of absorbing half of the human-generated carbon in the atmosphere and producing half of the oxygen...
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IIT Jodhpur Researchers Identify COVID-19 RNA Variations And Their Implications
The scientists have also studied the fixation of these intra-host variations into extra-host variations and mutations that lead to variants. The results of the two-phase study have been published in the journal "Nucleic Acid Research".
-
HIV Vaccine Tests Using mRNA Technology Begin In US
Testing in humans of an HIV vaccine that uses messenger RNA technology has begun, the biotech firm Moderna and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative said Thursday.
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New RNA-Based Therapy Protects Mice From Covid Virus, Variants: Study
Researchers have identified an RNA molecule that stimulates the body's early antiviral defence system, and can protect mice from a range of variants of CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
-
One Vaccine Makes More Antibodies Than Another. Does It Matter?
Ten months ago, the results of large clinical trials appeared almost too good to be true: Two messenger RNA vaccines reduced symptomatic Covid-19 cases by more than 90% in almost every group that got them.
