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Because it is so easy to change the mRNA recipes, cancer vaccines can be part of a personalized medicine plan where doctors sample a patient’s tumour, sequence key genes and adjust the mRNA treatment to include recipes specific to that patient’s cancer. Clinical trials using this personalized approach for pancreatic…

The DNA of living species encode their complexity, but where do these genes come from? The University of Helsinki researchers answered long-standing problems about the development of small regulatory genes and described a way for generating their DNA palindromes. Read further on Dynamite News:

IISc scientists have developed a new capillary force-assisted cloaking method to trap droplets within colloidal particles and liquid-infused surfaces. Droplets are used for various applications, such as in microreactors, drug delivery systems, in single crystal growth and cell culture platforms.

Landmark decisions that mark the beginning of gene therapy using the CRISPR-Cas9 tool to treat diseases that could otherwise be cured only through bone marrow transplantation

Researchers say ‘astounding’ inequalities are widest where risk can be cut with lifestyle changes

Insights into intricate processes of limb formation could lead to new treatments for muscle disorders and congenital limb syndromes.

The human genome contains ca. 20,000 genes that are used for the construction of proteins. Actions of these classical genes are coordinated by thousands of regulatory genes, the smallest of which encode microRNA molecules that are 22 base pairs in length. Read further on Dynamite News:

Some physicists have hypothesized that in the earliest moments of the Big Bang, the forces of nature were so extreme and so exotic that they could have supported the growth of complex structures.

Chemotherapy becomes less effective as healthy cells encourage cancer cells to grow more slowly, according to two studies from UCL and Yale. Read further on Dynamite News: