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🧬 Turns out, mRNA isn't just a passive genetic courier. Arc’s Hani Goodarzi and lab, in collaboration with Luke Gilbert’s lab, discovered that mRNA can actively control its own expression using newly discovered "RNA switches." The team found over 200 of these switches in human cells, previously thought to exist only in simple, single-celled organisms. This has the potential to help revolutionize drug development, especially for "undruggable" proteins that can’t be targeted by therapeutics directly. Congrats to Arc Core Investigator and UCSF Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics Hani Goodarzi, Arc Post Doc Matvei Khoroshkin and the entire team on this exciting work. Read the study in Nature Methods: https://lnkd.in/e7ygr5s5 Learn more in Matvei Khoroshkin's ‘Behind the paper’ blog post: https://lnkd.in/eX3R2qEC Check out the Goodarzi lab’s SwitchFinder tool designed for the systematic discovery of RNA structural switches within transcriptomes: https://lnkd.in/eav4WZ7U

A systematic search for RNA structural switches across the human transcriptome - Nature Methods

A systematic search for RNA structural switches across the human transcriptome - Nature Methods

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Very interesting, congratulations!

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Sedigheh Asad

Associate Professor at University of Tehran

3mo

Very informative

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Mehdi Goudarzi, Ph.D.

Biotech Equity Research Associate at Truist Securities

2mo

Congrats Hani and team!, that's awesome

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Ahir Pushpanath , PhD.

Technical Director, Biocatalysis at bitBiome

3mo

That's neat!

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Ahmet Can Berkyurek

CEO & Co-founder @Cambridge Medixine Ltd. | RNA enthusiast | Father to a baby daughter.

3mo

Very exciting work

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Joan Kanter

2022, Recently retired from: Administrative Coordinator, Jonathan Weissman lab at HHMI/UCSF

3mo

Yay, great work!

Ali Hashemi Gheinani

Molecular and Computational Biologist

2mo

Awsome work Hani and team! Congratulations

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Sourav Bandyopadhyay

Translational R&D | Oncology | Drug Discovery | AI/ML

3mo

Very cool, congrats Hani Goodarzi

Avinash Kollipara, Ph.D.

RNA/subunit/polysaccharide vaccinologist at Pfizer’s Vaccine Research & Development

2mo

Very interesting !

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