Johns Hopkins Medicine laboratory scientists say they have developed a potential new way to treat a variety of rare genetic diseases marked by too low levels of specific cellular proteins. To boost ...

Radiation therapy is a powerful tool for fighting cancer, but it comes with painful side effects. About 60% of cancer ...

Johns Hopkins scientists develop mRNA "booster" as potential new way to treat rare genetic diseases marked by too low levels ...

The Florida surgeon general in January called for a halt in the use of covid mRNA vaccines. And in Texas, Attorney General ...

For the Liu Lab, necessity is truly the mother of invention. The researchers were examining how the 3D organization of the ...

Genes have to be expressed in the right place, at the time, and at the right levels. Scientists wanted to know more about how ...

DNA contains genes that are turned on and off to produce ... Ph.D., designed five types of mRNA boosters to attach to five human mRNAs. One mRNA makes routine proteins in cells, and the other four ...

Boosting cells with a tardigrade protein reduced DNA damage after radiation, offering potential protection for healthy tissue ...

One avenue for new vaccine development is mucosal vaccines. In theory, dosing the vaccine directly into the respiratory tract ...

Cancer metastasis, the spread of cancer to organs, is a major cause of cancer-related deaths. Once cancer spreads to multiple ...

Scientists would examine the DNA and RNA (RNA and mRNA serve different functions in a cell) of a specific patient's tumor to create a vaccine to teach that person's immune system to target and ...

While mRNA-based shots do not modify DNA, for example ... University researchers reported in February that they found spike protein still circulating in a subset of individuals with a debilitating ...