RNA Translated, 2020, the year of the RNA virus

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…

In 2021, the first mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 received FDA approval. Based on decades of RNA research, these vaccines are only the beginning of the RNA therapeutic research breakthroughs. Our 2021 issue of RNA Translated presents 18 interviews with U-M scientists and scholars whose research contributes to RNA therapeutics. The magazine particularly focuses on three…

An initiative to make the University of Michigan a world leader in RNA therapeutics, spearheaded by the Center for RNA Biomedicine and the Biointerfaces Institute   Fueled by the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine success and the recent Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and elucidation of the bacterial CRISPR systems that can be harnessed for…