Virginia Arechavala-Gomeza

Virginia Arechavala-Gomeza

Virginia Arechavala-Gomeza
Position

Ikerbasque Research Professor and head of the Nucleic Acid Therapies for Rare Diseases group at the Biobizkaia Health Research Institute.

The ‘dark transcriptome’ has been used to reduce inflammation in mice and human cells

The so-called 'dark transcriptome' consists of non-coding RNA, i.e. RNA that does not provide instructions for building proteins. A study published in the journal Science Signaling used long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and modified them to attenuate acute inflammation in mice and human cells. The authors are confident that this could open up a new field of therapeutic development.

 

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