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Introduction   Synthetic mRNA produced by in vitro transcription (IVT) is the active pharmaceutical ingredient of approved vaccines and of many drugs under development. IVT mRNA typically contains several hundred bases of non-coding untranslated regions (UTRs) that are involved in the stabilization and translation of the mRNA. Remarkably, new research has discovered that these UTRs can be virtually eliminated without compromising translation of the encoded protein of interest. ...

Historically,  reporter genes  have been delivered as DNA plasmids for transcription into mRNA before translation into a reporter protein. In biological systems, ideal reporter proteins generate highly sensitive signals that are easily measurable. Thus, they are often  photoluminescent  (e.g., GFP) or  chemiluminescent  (e.g., luciferase).