Medical Xpress June 24, 2021
When cancers metastasize, cells from the primary tumor break away, travel through the blood or lymph system, and form new tumors in other body parts. Although metastasis are responsible for more than 90% of all cancer deaths, limited progress has been made in treating cancers that have spread.
Besides DNA, RNA is the other molecule of life. For several years now, RNA has become just as important as DNA in understanding the book of life. Especially, messenger RNA (mRNA), the basis of the COVID-19 vaccines, has been put in the spotlight. Just as with DNA, in addition to the four well-known letters (A, U, G, C), there are further letters defining the RNA alphabet, or RNA epigenetics. One of these...