【YSA x Z-Park】Frontiers in RNA Therapy
Thu, Mar 07
|Z-Park | ZGC Innovation Center Boston
YSA (Young Scholars Association) & Z-Park are very fortunate to have two experts in the field of RNA therapy to introduce this new technology and share with us the latest advances in this field.
Time & Location
Mar 07, 2019, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Z-Park | ZGC Innovation Center Boston, 1000 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
About the Event
What is RNA?
RNA, the abbreviation for ribonucleic acid, serves as the intermediary between genes and the proteins that they code for.
What is mRNA therapy?
Messenger ribonucleuc acid, or mRNA for short, plays a vital role in human biology, specifically in a process known as protein synthesis. mRNA is a single-stranded molecule that carries genetic code from DNA in a cell’s nucleus to ribosomes, the cell’s protein-making machinery.
mRNA is the set of instructions by which cells make all proteins and send them to various parts of the body. Using mRNA as a medicine is a fundamentally different approach than treating disease with other drug classes. mRNA medicines take advantage of normal biological processes to express proteins and create a desired therapeutic effect. This enables the potential treatment of a broad spectrum of diseases, many of which cannot be addressed with current technologies. mRNA has the potential to transform…