RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome - scientists are sequencing it to illuminate human health and disease

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint ...
Morning Overview on MSN

How RNA is exposing shocking clues about life’s origins on Earth

Life on Earth may have started with a molecule that still runs our cells today. As researchers probe ribonucleic acid in the ...
C&EN

How RNA helped build life’s first proteins

A forested hill and clouds are in the background of an image of a shallow pool of steaming water, with the ground underneath colored in shades of beige, red, and brown. Life may have first emerged in ...
Medical Xpress

RNA steps outside the cell to help guide immune responses, study suggests

RNA is usually portrayed as a molecule that works deep inside the cell, helping to turn genetic information into proteins. But new research led by Utrecht University scientist Jack Li shows that RNA ...
Phys.org

How a tiny RNA modification helps control cell stress responses

A tiny chemical modification commonly found on messenger RNAs plays a surprisingly large role in how cells respond to stress, according to a study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The ...
EurekAlert!

Chemists recreate how RNA might have reproduced for first time

Liquid brine veins, where RNA molecules can replicate, surround solid ice crystals in water ice, as seen with an electron microscope. Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have ...
Fred Hutch

Conducting RNA reconnaissance

Fred Hutch researchers invent a CRISPR screening method to understand RNA-binding proteins often mutated in cancer and other diseases In biology’s standard tale of two acids — deoxyribonucleic (DNA) ...