Molecular Mystery Solved: “Useless” RNA Segments Actually Help Cells Fight Stress
This study is the first to demonstrate that certain tRNA introns influence gene expression. Scientists have discovered that ...
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'Junk' RNA segments found to play role in protein production and cell stress response
But it just didn't make sense to me that they'd have no ... The research is published in Molecular Cell. Transfer RNA (tRNA) works with messenger RNA (mRNA) to construct proteins by way of ...
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How Sperm Regulate Offspring Health
1,2 “The vast majority of these kinds of complex diseases suffer from missing heritability; there's a predicted genetic predisposition which doesn't really match ... germ cells, are sensitive to ...
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‘Junk’ RNA segments play role in protein production, cell stress response
Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing production of certain messenger RNAs and appear to help cells respond to ...