Therapies for the widespread disease osteoporosis are good \u2013 but not so good that they cannot be improved. With this in mind, a team led by Professor Eric Hesse and Professor Hanna Taipaleenm\u00e4ki from the Institute of Musculoskeletal Medicine at LMU Hospital is investigating which molecular processes are involved in bone loss, which is usually caused by aging. The scientists discovered two so-called microRNAs that play a key role in regulating the formation of new bone and, at the same time, the degradation of existing bone. Using a new experimental RNA therapy, the team restored lost bone mass in osteoporotic mice. The results were recently published in the journal \u201cEMBO Molecular Medicine\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6014,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6016","izb-biotech-news","type-izb-biotech-news","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-izb-biotech-news-en"],"acf":[],"acf_migration":{"izb_related_company":"6290"},"wpml_migration":{"language_code":"en","source_language_code":"de","trid":"29690"},"yoast_migration":{"_yoast_wpseo_title":"RNA Technology could help fight bone loss \u2013 Innovations- und Gr\u00fcnderzentrum Biotechnologie IZB","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Scientists from the Institute of Musculoskeletal Medicine at LMU Hospital are conducting research on an experimental RNA therapy approach for osteoporosis patients"},"permalink_migration":{"custom_uri":"izb-biotech-news\/rna-technology-could-help-fight-bone-loss"},"yoast_head":"\n