Two separate laboratory breakthroughs have produced RNA molecules that can build copies of themselves or assemble functional structures without any help from proteins or DNA. These results offer the ...
With big pharma signalling interest in novel RNA-targeted approaches, the term “druggable” is being redefined as technology ...
Researchers are embarking on the RNA equivalent of the Human Genome Project, including sequencing all the chemical ...
The natural RNAi mechanism can be directed by either short interfering RNA (siRNA) or microRNA (miRNA). 1 There are four key steps in the RNAi pathway. When miRNA acts as the guide for RNAi, only a ...
A strand of RNA just 45 nucleotides long has been discovered to perform two key reactions required for self-replication. The ...
40,000-year-old RNA from permafrost-preserved tissue was recovered from a mammoth specimen known as Yuka. Molecular evidence from Yuka revealed a correction to the original assumption about Yuka’s sex ...