Thursday, February 16, 2012

ScienceDaily: Biotechnology News

ScienceDaily: Biotechnology News


Computer sleuthing helps unravel RNA's role in cellular function

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:31 AM PST

Computer engineers may have just provided the medical community a new way of figuring out exactly how one of the three building blocks of life forms and functions. They have used a complex computer program to analyze RNA motifs – the subunits that make up RNA.

New defense mechanism against viruses and cancer identified

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 09:37 AM PST

Scientists have found a fundamentally new mechanism how our defense system is ramped up when facing a viral intruder. Exploitation of this mechanism in vaccines sparks new hope for better prevention and therapy of infectious diseases and cancer.

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