Biochemist studies when enzymes in our cells go wrong and misbehave in human disease. University of Delaware researcher awarded NIH grant to study why eraser…
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[embedded content]Researchers are working on new ways to cure COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused…
DNA and associated cellular machinery is gathered and organized by certain non-coding RNAs, each region shown in a different colored jellybean-shape in this model. Credit:…
Eukaryotic Toeholds (eToeholds) are engineered RNA-based control elements that, as in this example, can be specifically activated by viral “trigger RNAs” to enable synthesis of…
A study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified an RNA molecule that suppresses prostate tumors. According to the research —…
A new RNARibonucleic acid (RNA) is a polymeric molecule similar to DNA that is essential in various biological roles in coding, decoding, regulation and expression…
Abnormal levels of beta-amyloid protein in the brain form plaques (brown in this illustration) between neurons, disrupting cells. Tau protein can form tangles (blue) within…
Soumya Kannan is a 2021-22 Yang-Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics Graduate Student Fellow in the lab of MIT Professor Feng Zhang and co-first author with…
RNA particles swarm an X chromosome from a mouse in a new visualization of X chromosome inactivation. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory Combining lab data…
A new study by Penn State researchers has revealed the chemical steps involved in adding an important tag—a methyl sulfur group—to transfer RNA, a process…
3D illustration of an RNA chain. Credit: Christopher Burgstedt/Getty Images Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently unveiled their discovery of a new process…
Schematic representation of m6A modifications (blue) attaching to RNA in the liver. Credit: Sallam Lab/UCLA May also explain liver fat differences among men & women.…
New research published in the Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine indicates that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, produces microRNAs that can have impacts on infected…
A variety of molecules protrude from the cell surface, including glycoproteins, glycolipids, and the newly discovered glycoRNAs. This illustration depicts RNA as a double-stranded stem…
A collaboration between biologists and physicists suggests that RNA is a feedback regulator of its own production. Low concentrations of RNA lead to the formation…
Newly described chemical reaction could have assembled DNA building blocks before life forms and their enzymes existed. Discovery boosts theory that life on our planet…
The development of mRNA knock-down technologies for use in vertebrate organisms such as zebrafish has been limited. CRISPR-RfxCas13d has been identified as an effective method…
MIT researchers have developed a method to isolate T cells that bind to different targets and then sequence their RNA. Credit: SciStories LLC Researchers develop…
Possible Model for How Biological Polymers May Have Formed during the Origin of Life on Earth. Credit: Bracher Lab, Saint Louis University Uncovering how the…
Heart muscle can continue to die even after restoring blood following a heart attack, and scientists have new evidence that one way to help it…