Brown aims to become epicenter for RNA research

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SOLVING PROBLEMS: Theresa Raimondo, an assistant professor of engineering at Brown University, will be one of the faculty members taking advantage of an $11.1 million National Institutes of Health grant to research RNA for health care. 
COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY/­CHERIE DANIEL
SOLVING PROBLEMS: Theresa Raimondo, an assistant professor of engineering at Brown University, will be one of the faculty members taking advantage of an $11.1 million National Institutes of Health grant to research RNA for health care. 
COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY/­CHERIE DANIEL

Ribonucleic acid, or RNA, has emerged as one of the more puzzling mysteries of modern medicine and one that Brown University researchers are untangling. RNA is a microscopic chain of molecules that helps make life possible. Scientists once thought RNA’s only job was to copy DNA – the molecule that holds genetic information – and

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