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U-M Researchers Collaborate on $3 Million Grant to Treat Rare Forms of Cystic Fibrosis
Center RNA Therapeutics Director Michelle Hastings, and faculty members Rachel Niederer and Alexandra Piotrowski-Daspit address the need for new treatment strategies, and the subsequent barriers that must be overcome for success, by working together as an interdisciplinary team with unique expertise in CFTR physiology, designing RNA therapeutics, identifying targetable regulatory sequences, and developing engineered delivery…

Center for RNA Biomedicine hosts RNA Collaborative Seminar April 9 – Video recording now available!
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Dr. Michael Cianfrocco and a team of U-M researchers discover new mechanisms used by HIV to infiltrate cells
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CRISPR to KLIPP cancer
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U-M Biosciences Initiative invests $45M in ‘groundbreaking’ research (Michigan News)
October 29, 2018 University of Michigan Biosciences Initiative video ANN ARBOR—A new center for the study of concussions, an institute for global change biology, and a facility to advance the new field of cryo-electron tomography are among the University of Michigan projects to be funded in the first round of investments from President Mark Schlissel’s…