The popularity of mRNA-based therapeutics has surged over the past few years. To ensure the safety of these treatments, scientists need to analyze the characteristics of the manufactured molecules, ...

Although RNA is a single-stranded molecule, researchers soon ... in a cell can "read" all 61 codons in mRNA. The opposite end of the folded structure, which is the 3' end of the tRNA, binds ...

However, in the half-century since the structure of DNA was first elaborated ... complex can then inhibit transcription of an mRNA molecule that has a sequence complementary to its RNA component.

rRNA molecules, along with ribosomal proteins, form the structure of the ribosomes and catalyze the formation of peptide ... The resulting primary transcript, known as pre-mRNA in eukaryotes, ...

It can also create a few other types of RNA, including small nuclear RNA (which forms complexes with other proteins to process mRNA) and microRNA (which regulates the translation process). An RNA ...

In DNA, two complementary strands of nucleotides pair up through hydrogen bonds between the bases (A with T and G with C) to form the iconic double helix structure. RNA is usually single-stranded ...

Imagine a breakthrough in cancer treatment where only malignant cells are targeted, sparing healthy host cells; or patients ...

In this study, the researchers reveal the structure of U11 snRNP—one of the five subunits of the minor spliceosome, which ...

"I find mRNA very fascinating because as an informational molecule, its function is encoded ... versatility to extensively ...

She has a PhD in systems biology from ETH Zurich and a master’s in molecular biology from ... that both RNA-binding proteins and mRNA are colocalized with mitochondria in mouse, pig, cow, and human ...