A portion of noncoding RNA may play an essential role in protecting the integrity of the genome

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Nico Gomez MSTP Fellow, Cellular and Molecular Biology Sami Barmada Lab Who/what brought you to science? I’ve been fascinated with nature for as long as I can remember. My curiosity for biological systems eventually turned inwards towards those that governed my behavior, thoughts, and emotions. My exposure to the medical field, in turn, reshaped these…
The grassroots Center for RNA Biomedicine at the University of Michigan involves among its opt-in membership RNA scientists from across the Ann Arbor campus, encompassing all seven Schools and Colleges that are engaged in the Biosciences. The Center’s leadership reflects this diversity of viewpoints and serves to facilitate scientific collaboration.
Foundational RNA Biosciences: From Discovery to Function Friday, March 29, 2019, 8:30am – 4:00pm University of Michigan, Biomedical Research Science Building, 109 Zina Pitcher The Center for RNA Biomedicine Symposium brings together national leaders of the scientific, medical and engineering communities working on recent advances of our understanding of RNA. It will provide a means…
Research Update: Sunitha Nagrath and Muneesh Tewari. CRB Faculty Members Sunitha Nagrath, Ph.D., and Muneesh Tewari, Ph.D., M.D., are learning the potential that liquid biopsies hold as a potential non-invasive, diagnostic tool. Their research is cited in a new article recently published in Health Lab. Dr. Nagrath reveals that circulating biomarkers found in bodily fluids…
Bambarendage Pinithi (Pini) Perera Research Assistant Professor Environmental Health Sciences School of Public Health Lab website My primary research interests are in the field of environmental epigenetics, which seeks to identify molecular mechanisms and changes in epigenetic cues that result from environmental exposures at critical times in life, and links of these phenomena to…
University of Michigan Center for RNA Biomedicine Co-Director Dr. Mats Ljungman presented research on his KLIPP technique at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting at the San Diego Convention Center in California. Dr. Ljungman’s talk, “KLIPP: Precision targeting of cancer with CRISPR,” was given on Tuesday, April 9, as part of the…