Elie Dolgin, PHD, Science Journalist
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mRNA inside a lipid nanoparticle
By Elie Dolgin 03 Apr, 2024
Drug trial results show that vaccines aren't the only use for the mRNA technology behind the most widely used COVID-19 jabs.
Insulin-producing pancreatic islet cells
By Elie Dolgin 28 Feb, 2024
Gene-editing strategies that allow stem cells to evade the immune system offer hope for universal cell-replacement therapies.
Phase separation causes complex mixtures to segregate — like oil droplets in water.
By Elie Dolgin 27 Feb, 2024
Imaging and molecular manipulation reveal how ‘condensates’ form and offer clues to the role of phase separation in health and disease.
Functional precision medicine
By Elie Dolgin 14 Feb, 2024
Researchers are blasting patients’ cancer cells with dozens of drugs in the hope of finding the right treatment.
Protein–RNA complexes shroud inactivated X chromosomes
By Elie Dolgin 01 Feb, 2024
Rogue antibodies are drawn to the protein–RNA coating on half of the X chromosomes in an XX cell.
Svetlana Mojsov played a pivotal role in identifying and characterizing the active form of GLP-1.
By Elie Dolgin 13 Dec, 2023
How a biochemist finally gained recognition for her part in developing multibillion-dollar weight-loss drugs.
Immune system processing self-amplifying RNA vaccine.
By Elie Dolgin 06 Dec, 2023
Researchers look ahead to the potential uses and benefits of a technology that has been more than 20 years in the making.
Illustration of circular RNA
By Elie Dolgin 04 Oct, 2023
The commercial success of RNA vaccines for COVID-19 has revved up interest in circular RNAs as the next generation of therapies.
mRNA-LNP vaccine for COVID-19
By Elie Dolgin 03 Oct, 2023
Nature talks to experts about how mRNA is transforming medicine.
Frozen vial of a COVID vaccine
By Elie Dolgin 02 May, 2023
Software from Baidu Research yields jabs for COVID that have greater shelf stability and that trigger a larger antibody response in mice than conventionally designed shots.
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