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Moderna founder unveils new drug company focused on a different kind of RNA

November 9, 2021

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Long before we knew how they did it, human cells had refined the process for making proteins, the microscopic workers needed for pretty much everything our bodies do.

First, a special enzyme finds the instructions for a protein in our DNA. It then produces a piece of genetic information called messenger RNA, or mRNA, that acts as a template for another part of the cell, the ribosome, telling it what building blocks are required for the protein and what order they go in.

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