🧬 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
Very informative
Congrats Hani and team!, that's awesome
That's neat!
Fascinating work -- Congrats, Hani Goodarzi and Luke Gilbert!
Very exciting work
Yay, great work!
Awsome work Hani and team! Congratulations
Very cool, congrats Hani Goodarzi
Very interesting !
Very interesting, congratulations!