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Biotech firm Intradigm has tacked an additional $2.9 million onto its second round of funding, bringing its total to $21.4 million. The new money will be used to advance its RNA interference-based line of therapeutics used to treat cancer. The Palo Alto,...
Tags: Intradigm Corp., RNA, rna interference, final tranche
A report published by American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has demonstrated how ancient RNA might have joined together to reach a biologically relevant length. The report also discussed the simple fusion process of RNA that must...
Tags: RNA, DNA, evolution, origin of life, pH, enzymes, Earth
In a potentially habitable region of our galaxy, a sugar molecule linked to origin of life is recently discovered. This sugar molecule called, Glycolaldehyde was spotted in a large star-forming area of space around 26,000 light years away from Earth....
Tags: IRAM telescope, Galaxy, Universe, Milky Way, RNA, molecule, Glycolaldehyde, Earth
Health is one of the prime problems facing families throughout the world today. Prevention of diseases as well as taking care of those infected is not only time consuming but expensive...November has been declared “Alzheimer’s disease month.” As previously...
Tags: rna
Researchers have succeeded in programming complex instructions into strings of synthetic RNA molecules and inserting them into living cells to do their bidding. In a study published today in the U.S. journal Science , Maung Nyan Win and Christina Smolke...
Tags: RNA, synthetic rna
An international team of scientists, including two Indian-origin researchers, has identified a revolutionary technique that may suppress HIV's spread dramatically. While working with mice infected with HIV, the researchers used a method called RNA interference...
Reference The idea that RNA (ribonucleic acid) is involved in activating and inhibiting genes is relatively new, and it has been unclear how RNA strands might regulate the process. In a new study available online today and in a future issue of Nature...
Tags: RNA
French last year steered Sirna Therapeutics to a $1.1 billion sale to Merck...Quay, at Nastech's helm for eight years, will become chief scientific officer and remain chairman. RNA interference, the same type of products that spurred the acquisition of...