New RNA-based active agents reliably protect plants against the Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the most common virus in ...

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology ...

Ribonucleic acid, commonly known as RNA, is involved in many biological functions, and some, including gene silencing, are utilitized to cure diseases. RNA has recently gained attention as a promising ...

In 1965, Cornell biochemist Robert Holley deciphered the 77 nucleotide sequence of transfer RNA. Three years later, Holley was awarded the Nobel Prize for this work, but already the race to determine ...

Nobel Laureate and University of Chicago professor Jack Szostak delivered two lectures on the origin of life to an audience of professors, graduate, and undergraduate students the Monday and Tuesday ...

Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are non-coding RNA molecules whose role in gene regulation and their association with certain diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) or colorectal cancer, ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A computational tool named NuFold has been developed to model 3D RNA structures, potentially accelerating medical discoveries by decades. This tool addresses the ...

Researchers at Purdue University have developed a computational solution to this problem named NuFold, which will model 3D RNA structures that could expedite medical discovery decades ahead of ...

However, there remain many questions related to the different RNA editing mechanisms and the evolutionary implications of these processes. Blum, B., Bakalara, N. & Simpson, L. A model for RNA ...