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2021 Symposium
Our 5th Annual Symposium will take place Thursday and Friday, March 25th and 26th, 2021, 11:00–2:30 EST. VIRTUAL and NOT RECORDED, free and open to all – registration required. RNA research shapes revolutionary scientific paths, from fundamental science discoveries in the labs to powerful biomedical applications for patients. The rapid rise of RNA-guided genome…
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…
RNA Symposium dives into foundational RNA bioscience (Michigan Medicine Headlines)
MICHIGAN MEDICINE HEADLINES> UPDATES & RESOURCES March 26, 2019 // FOUND IN: Updates & Resources The U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine’s fourth annual symposium on March 29 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…
Our Members at The RNA Society 25th Annual Meeting
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Translating from dissertation to dream job: a nascent RNA career
Only a couple of weeks after defending her Ph.D. thesis in November, Sarah Owen, a graduate student in Chemical Engineering in Dr. Sunitha Nagrath’s lab, landed her dream job. “It all went very fast,” she explained, “I had a seven-hour zoom interview on Thursday, and they offered me the job the following Monday!” In January…