Marco Mangone, Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

Marco Mangone, Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University

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Marco Mangone has devoted his career to looking at a peculiar region found at the ends of genes, called untranslated elements, or 3'UTRs. The are found on the end of messenger RNAs, but as the name suggests, they don't actually make protein. Stresses Mangone: "They have to be there for a reason." Mangone's goal is to understand the function of every UTR in the human body, called the h3'UTRome.

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Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University

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