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Sean Ryder, professor at UMass Chan Medical School, has written a book to delve the mysteries of ribonucleic acid as a tool to fight diseases. Messenger ribonucleic acid, or mRNA, is in the public ...

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The life of an astronaut comes with a lot of poking and prodding. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Artemis 2 astronauts will be ...

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New computer simulations that model every atom of a protein as it folds into its final three-dimensional form support the existence of a recently identified type of protein misfolding. Proteins must ...