Austrian Swiss RNA Meeting
January 30 - February 03, 2019, Fuschlsee, Austria
The joint meeting of the NCCR RNA & Disease and the Vienna RNA Biology Network was…
Editorial David Gatfield - The Messenger No. 9
Dear colleagues,
The trick is growing up without growing old. A few months into Phase II, our NCCR is now in early adulthood - the right moment to…
Propelling Swiss RNA Research Forward
The NCCR RNA & Disease started its second four-year phase in 2018: Time to look back at the first four years.
From its middle position within the central…
Face to face with the co-directors
The co-directors Oliver Mühlemann (OM) and Frédéric Allain (FA) give in this interview their personal account and opinions on the origins, state and future…
Disrupting Telomerase
How to stop cancer cells from proliferating unlimitedly? That is one of the central questions in cancer research, as these cells have found several ways to circumvent normal…
miRNAs are not just "on" or "off"
Small noncoding RNAs, known as microR-NAs, regulate many biology processes by silencing target mRNAs. Studying the let-7 miRNA in C. elegans, Giovanna Brancati and…
RNA impact maps
The group of Mihaela Zavolan from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has recently presented two new computational tools for studying three prime untranslated regions of mRNA,…
Editorial Ramesh Pillai - The Messenger No. 8
Dear colleagues,
It is my pleasure to introduce the latest issue of The Messenger. One major highlight is an interview with Chuan He who travels back…
“There is no room for a zoo of modifications on mRNA.”
Chuan He gives us his perspective on the field of messenger RNA methylation and tells us about his career.
The field of mRNA methylation has…
Cleaving with preferences
In eukaryotes, RNA interference-derived small RNAs (sRNAs) play a critical role in development, gene expression, and genome stability. Dicer proteins have an important role…