US supports waiving intellectual property rules on vaccines

Biden throws support behind waiving intellectual property protections for Covid vaccines to allow hard-hit countries like India and South Africa to make copycat shots The Biden administration said on Wednesday it supports waiving intellectual property protections for vaccine makers like Pfizer and Moderna  Without waiving these patent rights, countries like South African and India cannot manufacture […]

RNA editing protein ADAR1 protects telomeres and supports proliferation in cancer cells

Scientists at The Wistar Institute identified a new function of ADAR1, a protein responsible for RNA editing, discovering that the ADAR1p110 isoform regulates genome stability at chromosome ends and is required for continued proliferation of cancer cells. These findings, reported in Nature Communications, reveal an additional oncogenic function of ADAR1 and reaffirm its potential as […]