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Cell-free RNA blood test identifies early-stage cancers, monitors treatment resistance and detects tissue damage

Stanford Medicine researchers have developed a blood test capable of detecting cancers, the ways cancer resists treatments and tissue injury caused by non-cancerous conditions. The new test analyzes ...

Human sperm RNA changes with age, study finds

According to research from a team at the University of Utah Health and the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, ...
Medicine Buffalo

RNA editing sites likely play more significant role in genetic disease

New findings by UB researchers reveal that RNA editing may play a larger role in human biology and in the development of human disease than has generally been understood. Published in Nature ...
The Economist

A primer on RNA, perhaps the most consequential molecule of all

The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets. Thomas Cech. W.W. Norton; 304 pages; $28.99 and £23.99 All this is the subject of Thomas Cech’s new book, “The Catalyst”. The author ...
EurekAlert!

How AI could speed the development of RNA vaccines and other RNA therapies

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Using artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have come up with a new way to design nanoparticles that can more efficiently deliver RNA vaccines and other types of RNA therapies.
Scientific American

How RNA Unseated DNA as the Most Important Molecule in Your Body

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of ...