Whether studying cancer, host–microbiome interactions, plant development, or gene therapy, researchers must consider the full range of transcribed RNA. The different RNA species discussed here ...

The three types of RNA are found in different locations. mRNA is made in the nucleus, with each mRNA fragment copied from its relative piece of DNA, before leaving the nucleus and entering the ...

The question of how life could have emerged is one of the most long-standing mysteries in science. In a new study, the ...

The cocktail of RNA sequences was considerably different from those found inside the cell, and these sequences were intact and functional. When Valadi’s team exposed human cells to EVs from ...

As RNA shapes in individual cells can vary and drive different functions, studying the collective RNA shapes in many cells may overlook the individual variability in both RNA structure and function.

These lncRNAs are just one branch of the noncoding RNA family, and biologists keep discovering others that appear to have different functions and different ways of affecting what happens to a cell ...

After a few weeks, he collected RNA from their brains. "We found that there were over 20,000 different locations on various different proteins that were edited," says Birk, with more tweaking in ...

Deep within our nerve cells, a molecule is at work that has no beginning and no end. Instead of a straight chain, as is ...

And the list of options continues to grow… In addition to the methods above, there are also many different workflows for sequencing RNA from individual cells (scRNA-seq) and other ultra-low-input ...

Scientists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have recreated how RNA might have first replicated itself on early Earth.

Within the cell, NOVA1’s job is to bind to RNA to regulate alternative splicing—a process by which exons from the same gene are assembled in different ways to produce different RNA products, thus ...