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The Allain lab (ETH Zurich) together with the Sponer (Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic) and Zavolan (University of Basel) labs joined forces to gain insight into the RNA binding mode of RRM1 of SRSF1. Based on the complex structure, it was possible to engineer by mutating a single…

The labs of Norbert Polacek and André Schneider (Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern) discovered that in Trypanosoma brucei upon nutritional stress tRNAs get shortened so that they can not be used for translation, which leads to reduction of…

This week's edition of "Puls", the Swiss television's (SRF) health magazine, focused this week on Corona vaccination. The edition featured a video on mRNA vaccines featuring Steve Pascolo. Steve Pascolo is group leader at the Dermatology Clinic of the University Hospital Zurich, head of the URPP…

The fourteenth edition of the NCCR RNA & Disease Newsletter -The Messenger has been published.

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FMI News Article
Just like people, cells get stressed too. A sudden drop in oxygen, overheating, or toxins can trigger a cascade of molecular changes that lead cells to stop growing, produce stress-protective factors, and form stress granules – proteins and RNA molecules huddled together into…