BISMARCK - North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has appointed his fourth state health officer since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Nizar Wehbi is.
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RNA worked for COVID-19 vaccines. Could it be used to treat cancer and rare childhood diseases? Tom Avril, The Philadelphia Inquirer
A few weeks ago, a group of Philadelphia scientists reported that they had injected mice with genetic instructions in the form of RNA, prompting the animals’ cells to produce customized proteins.
If that seems like no big deal at this point, now that millions have undergone a similar process in being vaccinated against COVID-19, guess again.
These injections were not vaccines, and the mice in question were fetuses, so the RNA had to be administered with slender glass needles the width of a human hair. The experiment, conducted by researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, marked a first step toward using RNA to treat rare genetic diseases before birth.
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Question of the Day By ANDY RAUN - Associated Press - Saturday, March 6, 2021
HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) - If Rich Lloyd’s lifelong ambition was to become a college president, one might think he would be pretty pleased with himself at this point.
Lloyd, after all, now leads two institutions of higher learning at the same time. He’s served as president of the Bryan College of Health Sciences in Lincoln since 2016, and on Monday will have six months under his belt in the dual role of executive president of Hastings College.