What have we learned about RNA structure and function so far? Although RNA is a single-stranded molecule, researchers soon discovered that it can form double-stranded structures, which are ...

It is a polymeric molecule composed of nucleotides ... and has a single-stranded structure. Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases (Image: ...

However, in the half-century since the structure of DNA was first ... inhibit transcription of an mRNA molecule that has a sequence complementary to its RNA component. Inside the eukaryotic ...

Researchers have shown, for the first time, how the genetic material of the Nipah virus replicates in infected cells. The ...

No large RNA structure database exists that correlates ... Researchers collected single-molecule AFM images of benchmark RNAs in distinct conformations. Unsupervised machine learning and deep ...

The goal is to determine how often this lincRNA molecule is activated in these cancers. They also hope to identify whether these RNA molecules are more common in any particular tumor subgroups ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

The chemical structure of uracil, showing its single-ring pyrimidine structure. Uracil forms hydrogen bonds with adenine in RNA, contributing to the molecule's structure and function. (Image: Public ...

Unlike traditional messenger RNA, circRNAs form a continuous loop, lacking the typical 5' cap and 3' tail. This unique structure was ... a major shift in molecular biology and oncology.