National Center of Competence
in Research, RNA & Disease

Welcome to the Swiss National Center
of Competence in Research RNA & Disease

The role of RNA in disease mechanisms

News

New "Equal Opportunities" Measure: Financial Support for Child Care during Scientific Conferences and Short Research Stays

The NCCR RNA & Disease is delighted to launch a new Equal Opportunities measure that members of the NCCR RNA & Disease…
 

The THO Complex's Functions in Telomere Homeostasis

The Lingner lab investigated the roles THO Complex's function in telomere homeostasis, and found that it hinders TERRA…
 

NCCR RNA & Disease PhD fellowships awarded to Pei-Hsuan Wu, Karsten Weis and Roger Geiger

Following a call for associate members to submit proposals for PhD projects that will be carried out in collaboration…
 

TRAPping the ribosome and the translocon for membrane protein and hormone biogenesis

A recent "Nature Structural & Molecular Biology" paper by the Ban (IMBB) and Deuerling (University of Konstanz, Germany)…
 

Making Weak Splice Sites Strong

The Bühler lab by the use of their novel method BLIP-seq could shed identify two factors that promote the splicing of…