RNA – The Future of Medicine
July 2024
The genetic disorder discussed in this video was considered incurable and fatal for a long time. Particularly affected were children, whose muscles atrophied as the disease progressed. But scientist came up with a revolutionary therapy: A synthetic RNA molecule helps children to regain control over their muscles.
Oliver Mühlemann
Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Oliver Mühlemann is Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Bern. He and his team research on the molecular mechanisms of post-transcriptional gene regulation with a focus on the biological and medical implications of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD).
Award Certificate
Winner of MEDEA Awards 2022
A 50-person jury crowned “Democracy vs. Sustainability” as the winner of the MEDEA Award 2022, an international competition supported by the EU Commission. The bronze statuette had a safe trip from Belgium to Bern, where it’s now throning in our office. It shows us that there is a lot of potential in the connection between gaming, video and learning. We can’t wait to be going that path even further.
“RNA – The Future of Medicine” by University of Bern (Authors: Oliver Mühlemann, Jonathan Stauffer, Lydia Rufer, Janis Schertenleib, Veronika Herzog, Dominik Theler, Norbert Polacek) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY License.