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Tag: RNA

  • Targeted cancer drugs can distinguish between healthy and diseased cells

    Targeted cancer drugs can distinguish between healthy and diseased cells

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    Drug treatment for many diseases often balances the need for high enough drug levels to give a therapeutic benefit against the concurrent increase in the risk of side effects. For example, toxic therapies such as chemotherapy drugs need to be administered at high doses to target and destroy highly replicating cells. However, this results in…

  • The ABCs of Life on Earth

    The ABCs of Life on Earth

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    Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Edinburgh, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, and the Polish Academy of Science, have challenged the popular RNA World hypothesis regarding the origin of life on Earth. The work, published in Nature, supports a mixed RNA/DNA model which could…