BREAKING! Wisconsin Study Proposes Hypothesis That #SARS-CoV-2 Was A Originally A DNA Virus That Was Transcribed To An #RNA Virus! - Thailand Medical News
"A controversial theory posits that life began when RNA spontaneously began to replicate itself — and now researchers are claiming they've replicated part of that process in a lab."
Futurism reports: "The Salk Institute for Biological Studies scientists worked from the theory that before there was DNA or proteins, RNA existed as the initial ingredient in the so-called 'primordial soup.'"
#introduction I am a molecular and structural biologist working at the Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology in Paris. I am working with proteins and RNAs, fascinated by the many ways they interact with eachother. I use all sorts of biophysical techniques and molecular tools, but mostly #NMR and #Crystallography. Special interests in #RNA maturation and post-transcriptional #modifications.
I will here post about pre-prints, articles, conferences, related to my interests in research.
I missed this. Japan has approved the first self-copying RNA vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.
When used as a booster in clinical testing, the newly authorized vaccine, ARCT-154 triggered higher levels of virus-fighting antibodies1 that circulated the body for longer than did a standard mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. #Covid19#Vaccines#RNA#ARCT154
Pretty big crowd at the #ISNAC2023 meeting - on #NucleicAcids#Chemistry
I thought I did ok - went over Advances in #DNA & #RNA#Polymer hybrids. Key slide ⅓ of the way through after acknowledgements & background I showed the headers, titles of the 4 papers my student has out - in Chem, Precision Chem, JACS and ACS Nano, the last one just 2 weeks ago.
Told the audience he was happy, I was happy, and I hope they would read the papers, so "you too will be happy"
Just one slight chuckle #ProfLife
A life science venture investor is merging two of its biotechnology portfolio companies to form a single developer of nanoscale medications with programmable properties.
Nacktes Erbgut als Krankheitserreger: ein ansteckender #RNA-Strang verbreitet sich rasant bei Hopfen und tötet die Pflanzen.
Der Erreger ist besonders heimtückisch, weil er ein Jahr lang keine Symptome verursacht - aber trotzdem ansteckend ist.
A new company is underway that says it adapts the gene editing technique Crispr to make detecting nucleic acid targets like DNA or RNA faster and simpler.
Life is funny sometimes. In the fall of 2021 I ended up chatting with my neighbor on a flight from Frankfurt to Philly. He asks what I do for work. I said that I wrote software for the analysis of #RNA modifications by #massSpectrometry. He seemed impressed, and asked if I was familiar with the work of Katalin #Karikó. I told him "of course". He very proudly responded "I'm her husband" and pulled out a photo of them together with their daughter and the king of Spain. 1/x #mRNA#NobelPrize