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U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine hosts the RNA Collaborative Seminar Series, May 6, 2020

Launched in April 2020, the goal of the RNA Collaborative seminar series is to cross-promote RNA research to strengthen and connect the RNA scientific community. Proposed by the University of Michigan (U-M) Center for RNA Biomedicine, this initiative received great enthusiasm from seven RNA research centers. The group was quickly joined by two more centers…

RNA Symposium dives into foundational RNA bioscience (University Record)

March 25, 2019 By Annie Kadeli Biosciences Initiative Topic: Health & Medicine, Research The U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine’s fourth annual symposium on Friday will focus on foundational ribonucleic acid biosciences, from discovery to function. Recent discoveries in biomedicine have revealed that RNA is critical to most aspects of human health and that its misregulation is responsible…

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“Kinetic fingerprinting” of single protein molecules to find the biomarker needle in the haystack

  A cross-disciplinary team of scientists from the University of Michigan (U-M) has developed a biochemical technique that successfully measures the number of individual protein molecules present in blood at low concentrations. These findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), September 2020. The scientists developed special antibody probes that…

How the time was just right for developing a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine

Over 1,450 people attended our webinar with Melissa Moore, Chief Scientific Officer at Moderna Therapeutics, on March 3rd, 2021. In her presentation, Dr. Moore explained how the mRNA vaccine works, and how it was developed in record time of just 45 days. To put an end to this pandemic, she strongly encouraged the audience to…

Stephen Parker co-lead author of new paper linking gene network and pancreatic beta cell defects to type 2 diabetes

Stephen Parker co-lead author of new paper linking gene network and pancreatic beta cell defects to type 2 diabetes

Center for RNA Biomedicine Faculty and Executive Committee Member Stephen C.J. Parker, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, Human Genetics, and Biostatistics, just released new findings from a recent study on type 2 diabetes regulatory networks co-led by teams from the University of Michigan and Vanderbilt University. Type 2 diabetes results from a dysfunction of…

Dus and Wilinski publish significant discovery in insulin synthesis in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
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Dus and Wilinski publish significant discovery in insulin synthesis in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

The discovery of insulin has saved the lives of millions of people with diabetes worldwide, but little is known about the first step of insulin synthesis. Researchers at the University of Michigan have uncovered part of this mystery. Examining messenger RNAs involved in the production of insulin in fruit flies, they found that a chemical…