We may earn a commission if you buy something from any affiliate links on our site. .In 1995, Katalin Karikó was at her lowest ebb. A biochemist at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Karikó had dedicated much of the previous two decades to finding a way to turn one of the most fundamental building blocks of life, mRNA, into a whole new category of therapeutics.More often than not, Karikó found herself hitting dead ends. Numerous grant applications were rejected, and an attempt to raise funding from venture capitalists in New York to form a spin-off company had proved to be a fruitless...…We may earn a commission if you buy something from any affiliate links on our site. .In 1995, Katalin Karikó was at her lowest ebb. A biochemist at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Karikó had dedicated much of the previous two decades to finding a way to turn one of the most fundamental building blocks of life, mRNA, into a whole new category of therapeutics.More often than not, Karikó found herself hitting dead ends. Numerous grant applications were rejected, and an attempt to raise funding from venture capitalists in New York to form a spin-off company had proved to be a fruitless...WW…

Osteocalcin, a hormone produced in the bones, could one day provide treatments for age-related issues such as muscle and memory lossLast modified on Wed 6 Jan 2021 10.48 ESTKarsenty had become interested in osteocalcin, one of the most abundant proteins in bone. He suspected that it played a crucial role in bone remodelling – the process by which our bones continuously remove and create new tissue – which enables us to grow during childhood and adolescence, and also recover from injuries.Intending to study this, he conducted a genetic knockout experiment, removing the gene responsible for...…Osteocalcin, a hormone produced in the bones, could one day provide treatments for age-related issues such as muscle and memory lossLast modified on Wed 6 Jan 2021 10.48 ESTKarsenty had become interested in osteocalcin, one of the most abundant proteins in bone. He suspected that it played a crucial role in bone remodelling – the process by which our bones continuously remove and create new tissue – which enables us to grow during childhood and adolescence, and also recover from injuries.Intending to study this, he conducted a genetic knockout experiment, removing the gene responsible for...WW…

Welcome to Independence Day 2014, the day we celebrate our independence through revolutionary violence from Great Britain.In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America,When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel...…Welcome to Independence Day 2014, the day we celebrate our independence through revolutionary violence from Great Britain.In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America,When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel...WW…