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Small RNA as a central player in infections

Scienmag

Credit: (Image: Chair of Molecular Infection Biology II / University of Wuerzburg / SCIGRAPHIX) More than half of the world’s population carries the bacterium Helicobacter pylori in their stomach mucosa.

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Scientists discover small RNA that regulates bacterial infection

The Pharma Data

Scientists discover small RNA that regulates bacterial infection People with weakened immune systems are at constant risk of infection. “Our study took a novel approach to look directly into the bacterium’s behavior in the human host.” They named the small RNA SicX (sRNA inducer of chronic infection X).

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2020 Year in Review: COVID-19, CRISPR and Immunotherapies Define the Year for the Life Sciences

XTalks

However, for virologists like Lori Frappier, PhD, professor in the department of molecular genetics at the University of Toronto, the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 was less of a surprise and more of an inevitability. She told Xtalks that, “Experts have always known that this kind of pandemic was a possibility, especially with coronaviruses.