UMD researchers have discovered key mechanisms in gene regulation that could improve the design of RNA-based medicines.

If DNA is a book, then how is it read? Learn more about the DNA transcription process, where DNA is converted to RNA, a more portable ... to be determined. One model supposes that cleavage itself ...

Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...

A pioneering Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered model able to understand ... of invertebrates and bacteria. RNA, like its better-known chemical relative DNA, is an important molecule throughout ...

While some of the initial zeal around localized vaccine production in Africa has waned since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, efforts to bolster the continent’s immunization autonomy—especially | ...

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Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...

Not only does Bennu contain evidence of ancient pools of liquid water — it also carries minerals crucial to life, amino acids, and the five nucleobases for DNA and RNA. As asteroids crash into ...

While it's known that HD is caused by an abnormal expansion of cytosine, adenine and guanine nucleotide repeats in the DNA ... model systems to understand and elucidate novel RNA-based mechanisms ...