Nucleic Acid Medicine
Hi everyone, today I'd like to talk about Nucleic Acid Medicine, like the mRNA vaccine. Scientists make efforts to enable nucleic acid medicine to work properly in the body. I'll tell you the method. Nucleic acids are made of sugars, bases, and phosphates. DNA and RNA are also nucleic acids. They work on gene expressions, restoring, and adjustments. We use those features to treat and prevent diseases. Ordinary RNA is degraded by enzymes in the body, so a cap structure is added to prevent degradation. In our body, some enzymes work to break bacterial DNA or RNA. To recognize bacterial nucleic acids and theirs, their nucleic acids have a cap structure. If a nucleic acid doesn't have the cap, it'll be recognized and degraded by enzymes. Lipid molecules and carrier molecules are used to make a parcel that carries the nucleic acid, to prevent it from being attacked by immune cells and enable it to go accurately to the...