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New study: Montreal researchers identify three drugs that could reduce mortality in severely ill COVID-19 patients
Researchers from the RI-MUHC and the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Genome Centre examine differences in ICU patients who recovered or died from COVID-19 and identify candidate drugs to treat severe…

The dazzling potential of RNA therapies
Billions of people around the world have now received a Moderna or BioNTech-Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Created with synthetically developed messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) that…

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University joins Moderna in battle against global health threats
ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ is the first university in Canada to join the global platform that will accelerate the development of and expand the impact of mRNA vaccines and medicines ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University…

Similar to editing a film, mRNA splicing allows cancer cells to change the narrative
Researchers identify mechanism that offers potential to new therapeutic avenues ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ researchers are part of a new study led by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)…

Researchers unlock mysteries of complex microRNA oncogenes
New research led by ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Goodman Cancer Research Centre improves our understanding of microRNAs MicroRNAs are tiny molecules of nucleic acid that control gene expression…