A new RNA start­up looks to reimag­ine heart treat­ments, with eyes set on En­tresto

When Samir Oun­z­ian left Lon­don a decade ago to study a lit­tle-un­der­stood branch of the genome at a Swiss lab, he wasn’t sure what he would find. Known as long-non-cod­ing RNA, these sec­tions were trans­lat­ed in­to loop­ing rings of RNA — hence the name — but didn’t ac­tu­al­ly trans­late in­to pro­teins, and no one was quite sure how many there were or pre­cise­ly what they were do­ing.

“We didn’t ex­pect any­thing at the time,” Oun­z­ian told End­points News, “be­cause we didn’t re­al­ly un­der­stand how fre­quent they were in the genome.”

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