The team from Tel Aviv University developed a vaccine to combat the bacterium that causes the black plague, using the same system as with the COVID-19 vaccines.

“mRNA is, in many ways, the right molecule at the right time that will help us to unlock the therapeutic potential of other science.” ...

In the spotlight for its role in COVID-19 vaccines – and a Nobel Prize – mRNA is not a new invention. It’s a crucial messenger molecule at work every day in every cell in your body.

Interestingly, not all regions of an mRNA molecule correspond to particular amino acids. In particular, there is an area near the 5' end of the molecule that is known as the untranslated region ...

There was no immediate need, and the mRNA molecule could not yet be delivered efficiently or with reliability since the methods and technologies hadn’t been invented yet.

Professor Hirohide Saito (Department of Life Science Frontiers at CiRA / The University of Tokyo) and Assistant Professor ...

Thus, the elongation period of transcription creates a new mRNA molecule from a single template strand of DNA. As the mRNA elongates, it peels away from the template as it grows (Figure 5).

When the final Phase 3 data came out last November showing the mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna were more than 90% effective, Dr. Anthony Fauci had no words. He texted smiley face ...

A single mRNA molecule can be used to make many copies of a protein, but it is naturally programmed to die eventually, said Jeff Coller, a professor of RNA biology and therapeutics at Johns ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) One surprising star of the coronavirus pandemic response has been the molecule called mRNA. It's the key ingredient in the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines ...