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Katalin Karikó — Forging the mRNA Revolution

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Role of RNA in the Body

There is a very small difference between DNA and RNA, the major one is that the DNA is double-stranded. Extra hydroxyline is present on the sugar part of this RNA, which makes it very label. You don't even need an enzyme to cut it up. If you just store in room temperature sooner or later, your RNA is that great. That was the reason, actually from the 50s, they already were looking for this messenger RNA and couldn't find it because it was so label.

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