Briefing | The medicine is the message
Covid-19 vaccines have alerted the world to the power of RNA therapies
And the molecule has many more tricks up its sleeve
Editor’s note (October 7th 2024): On October 7th this year’s Nobel prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of micro-RNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. In this article in 2021 we examined the potential of micro-RNA and other RNA therapies.
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