Novel RNA Switch Dramatically Boosts Expression

Researchers at Northwestern University say they have developed a novel technique that dramatically boosts gene expression. According to Julius Lucks, Ph.D., an associate professor of chemical and biological engineering in the university’s McCormick School of Engineering, if scientists could precisely regulate gene expression, they could turn off the genes responsible for illness and disease and turn on those that enhance health and the immune system,"All we did was make an RNA switch that