Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc (ALNY)

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2:05AM Alnylam Pharma publishes new article in Nature describing discovery of central gene in mitochondrial physiology (ALNY) 9.03 : Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY) and collaborators at Massachusetts General Hospital announced new findings published in "Nature." Using an "integrative genomics" strategy that included RNAi technology, the study identified for the first time the mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU), which regulates calcium transport into mitochondria. This new discovery now enables molecular studies on mitochondrial calcium physiology with implications for advancement of new medicines across a broad range of diseases.