{"id":153378,"date":"2022-12-21T15:23:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T21:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/a-breakthrough-in-mrna-therapies-could-lead-to-biological-heart-pacemakers"},"modified":"2022-12-21T15:23:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T21:23:54","slug":"a-breakthrough-in-mrna-therapies-could-lead-to-biological-heart-pacemakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/a-breakthrough-in-mrna-therapies-could-lead-to-biological-heart-pacemakers","title":{"rendered":"A breakthrough in mRNA therapies could lead to biological heart pacemakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-breakthrough-in-mrna-therapies-could-lead-to-biological-heart-pacemakers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis concept that cells \u2018fight back\u2019 against modified RNA is of practical importance, as it suggests how one might improve the effectiveness of RNA therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Smidt Heart Institute have unveiled a novel concept \u2014 they harnessed modified messenger RNA (mRNA) technology used in creating the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines, which can be a significant step in the evolution and creation of biological pacemakers.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Luismmolina\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>The investigators identified how biological pacemaker cells could \u201cfight back\u201d against therapies to biologically correct abnormal heartbeat rates. They\u2019ve also found a new way to \u201cboost the effectiveness\u201d of RNA therapies by controlling the \u201cfighting back\u201d activity, they said in a release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis concept that cells \u2018fight back\u2019 against modified RNA is of practical importance, as it suggests how one might improve the effectiveness of RNA therapy.\u201d Researchers from the Smidt Heart Institute have unveiled a novel concept \u2014 they harnessed modified messenger RNA (mRNA) technology used in creating the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines, which can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}