Unlocking Huntington's Disease: DNA Repair Protein Could Hold Key To New Treatments
A new discovery offers hope for Huntington’s disease. This discovery provides hope that a DNA repair process may help slow or ...
The minor spliceosome: Researchers reveal new structural insights into an essential RNA-protein complex
In human cells, only a small proportion of the information written in genes is used to produce proteins. How does the cell ...
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Can DNA-nanoparticle motors get up to speed with motor proteins?
bringing the simulated performance closer to that of a motor protein. The engineered motor, with redesigned DNA/RNA sequences and a 3.8-fold increase in hybridization rate, achieved a speed of 30 ...
Yale Scientists Reprogram Genetic Code To Create Revolutionary Synthetic Organism
Yale researchers have created "Ochre," a genomically recoded organism that enables the production of synthetic proteins with ...
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The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA
By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...
Study reveals how RNA travels between cells to control genes across generations
RNA-based medicines are one of the most promising ways to fight human disease, as demonstrated by the recent successes of RNA ...
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RNA Can be Passed Down for Generations
There are many molecules with therapeutic potential, but it can be a challenge to deliver them to the right places at the ...
Can We Control Genetic Inheritance? New RNA Study Suggests It Might Be Possible
UMD researchers have discovered key mechanisms in gene regulation that could improve the design of RNA-based medicines.
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Damaged RNA, not DNA, revealed as main cause of acute sunburn
Sunburn has traditionally been attributed to UV-induced DNA damage, but it turns out that this is not the full truth.