{"id":30325,"date":"2022-09-14T17:48:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T22:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30325"},"modified":"2022-09-14T17:48:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T22:48:17","slug":"a-second-look-at-mrna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/14\/a-second-look-at-mrna\/","title":{"rendered":"A Second Look at mRNA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrighterside.news\/post\/microrna-found-to-regrow-90-of-lost-hair-new-study-finds\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">MicroRNA found to regrow 90% of lost hair, new study finds<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People affected by moderate hair loss turn to topical treatments like minoxidil (antihypertensive potassium channel opener) and finasteride (dihydrotestosterone-suppressing 5\u03b1-reductase inhibitor), the only Food and Drug Administration\u2013approved treatments for inducing hair regrowth. Both are designed not for hair loss treatment but serendipity.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from North Carolina State University have identified a microRNA (miRNA) that could promote hair regeneration. This miRNA \u2013 miR-218-5p \u2013 plays an important role in regulating the pathway involved in follicle regeneration, and could be a candidate for future drug development.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I know, miRNA (Micro RNA) differs from mRNA (Messenger RNA).  However, I have become very cautious about anything that deals with my personal nucleic acids.  So although I am beginning to notice that I am bald, and old, none of this for me.  Yet.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"https:\/\/instapundit.com\/542425\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Instapundit<\/a>, with whom I share a large percentage of my DNA.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MicroRNA found to regrow 90% of lost hair, new study finds: People affected by moderate hair loss turn to topical treatments like minoxidil (antihypertensive potassium channel opener) and finasteride (dihydrotestosterone-suppressing 5\u03b1-reductase inhibitor), the only Food and Drug Administration\u2013approved treatments for inducing hair regrowth. Both are designed not for hair loss treatment but serendipity. Researchers from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30326,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30325\/revisions\/30326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}