CEG Research Connection

SUNY Polytechnic Institute Interim Dean of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Dr. Andrés Melendez and Head of Nanobioscience Dr. Scott Tenenbaum received $320,000 from the National Institutes of Health to develop a switching mechanism that is attached to messenger RNA. Called sxRNA, this molecular tool enables the marking of cells in the body that could be involved in the processes that lead to Alzheimer’s disease, allowing them to be monitored in real time.

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