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From COVID-19 to the Basics of RNA

Table of Contents

  1. How does the SARS-CoV-2 virus infect cells?
  2. What are mRNA vaccines?
  3. Are there other ways of applying this novel approach?
  4. What about RNA-based therapies against viruses?
  5. What types of RNA do we have in our cells?
  6. How are mRNA molecules normally produced?
  7. How are proteins created from mRNA molecules?
  8. What is RNA interference?
  9. What about the increasing focus in recent years on non-coding RNA in cancer? (1)
  10. What about the increasing focus in recent years on non-coding RNA in cancer? (2)

1. How does the SARS-CoV-2 virus infect cells?

By Dr. Dalan Bailey – The Pirbright Institute, UK

An excerpt from Interspecies transmission of SARS-CoV-2

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2. What are mRNA vaccines?

By Dr. Anita Milicic – University of Oxford, UK

An excerpt from Vaccination

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3. Are there other ways of applying this novel approach?

By Dr. Katrina Pollock – Imperial College London, UK

An excerpt from Imperial College London’s saRNA Vaccine - COVAC1

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4. What about RNA-based therapies against viruses?

By Prof. John Rossi – Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, USA

An excerpt from Systemic RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics for the treatment of HIV-1

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5. What types of RNA do we have in our cells?

By Dr. Douglas Houston – University of Edinburgh, UK

An excerpt from The biochemistry of DNA and RNA 2: biological function

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6. How are mRNA molecules normally produced?

By Dr. Carole Sargent – University of Cambridge, UK

An excerpt from Gene structure, expression and regulation: DNA structure and replication

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7. How are proteins created from mRNA molecules?

By Dr. Carole Sargent – University of Cambridge, UK

An excerpt from Gene structure, expression and regulation: translation and regulation of gene expression

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8. What is RNA interference?

By Prof. Richard Carthew – Northwestern University, USA

An excerpt from RNA interference functions and mechanisms in animals

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9. What about the increasing focus in recent years on non-coding RNA in cancer? (1)

By Prof. George Calin – MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

An excerpt from The non-coding RNA revolution in the cancer society

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10. What about the increasing focus in recent years on non-coding RNA in cancer? (2)

By Prof. George Calin, Dr. Maitri Shah

An excerpt from Recent advances in the field of non-coding RNAs in cancer

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