Elizabeth Castro Salas is studying Mexican tequila bats to find out how they can pick up and transmit infectious diseases like coronaviruses.
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What is mRNA? Solving a molecular mystery
RNA - ribonucleic acid - is far less famous than its deoxy relative, although it’s chemically very similar. We look at the story of the discovery of messenger RNA (mRNA) and how pioneering researchers in the 1960s proved its existence.
How do mRNA vaccines work?
If you can make an mRNA and you can get it into a cell, then the ribosomes in that cell will make whatever protein that mRNA encodes. And it’s here that we move from the 1960s right up to today, and to the story of mRNA vaccines.