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  • What do Spider-Man, Covid-19, and cancer now have in common? 

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    Author: Malia Neville That would be RNA!  Now for any Marvel fan, like myself, that recently went to the theaters to watch the new Spider-Man, you may have noticed the technical conversation between Parker and Banner about short interfering ribonucleic acid (siRNA). siRNA is not the focus here, but the related structure of messenger RNA…