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RNA: The most attractive target in recent viral diseases

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

This up-to-date commentary/perspective article sheds light on the revolutionary approaches designed to target the principal viral weapon “RNA” used by RNA viruses (e.g., the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 “SARS-CoV-2”) to infect humans and spread infections, the genomic RNA strands.

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RNA that doesn't age

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Certain RNA molecules in the nerve cells in the brain last a life time without being renewed. RNAs are generally short-lived molecules that are constantly reconstructed to adjust to environmental conditions. Neuroscientists have now demonstrated that this.

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RNA processing in health and disease: challenges and opportunities of the field

Drug Target Review

In this article Drug Target Review’s Izzy Wood spoke to Sam Hasson, Director of Target Biology at Rgenta Therapeutics, a biotech firm in Massachusetts, US, that aims to develop small molecule therapeutics to target RNA processing. The field is faced with a number of obstacles that require specifically assay technologies to surmount.

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RNA interference and its role in Alzheimer’s disease

Drug Target Review

Scientists from Northwestern Medicine have demonstrated that RNA interference could have a crucial role in the onset and development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Alzheimer’s disease Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia. 4 Short RNAs (sRNAs) do not code for proteins.

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Molecular biologists identify framework for understanding RNA editing in a disease-causing parasite

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Together, they have published dozens of papers on the mechanics of mitochondrial DNA and RNA in a single-celled, disease-causing parasite called Trypanosoma brucei. As molecular biologists at Boston University and as husband and wife, Ruslan Afasizhev and Inna Afasizheva, have worked together for decades.

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New technique illuminates how abnormal RNA splicing leads to disease

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

A technique that enables scientists to record gene mutations and patterns of gene activity in individual cells has been extended to cover RNA splicing as well, in a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, the New York Genome Center and the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto.

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Researchers develop RNA-targeting technology for precisely manipulating parts of human genes

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have harnessed a bacterial immune defense system, known as CRISPR, to efficiently and precisely control the process of RNA splicing.

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