News tagged with rna splicing

Engineered molecule changes itself to detect and attack diseased cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Christina Smolke has engineered biological molecules that regulate a cell's behavior by adjusting their own forms and functions in response to the internal conditions ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Research uncovers new exception to decades-old rule about RNA splicing

There are always exceptions to a rule, even one that has prevailed for more than three decades, as demonstrated by a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) study on RNA splicing, a cellular editing process. The rule-flaunting ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists clarify editing error underlying genetic neurodegenerative disease

Two molecular biologists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have uncovered important new details about how a gene mutation causes a cellular editing error that results in a devastating disease called pontocerebellar hypoplasia ...

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created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists discover master regulator of motor neuron firing

(PhysOrg.com) -- When the Human Genome Project was complete, DNA bowed out of the limelight and gave way to RNA as a major player in genetic regulation. Now, findings at Rockefeller University mirror this ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers find mechanism underlying alt. splicing of premessenger RNA into messenger RNA

An international research team led by Tim Nilsen, Ph.D., a professor of medicine and biochemistry and the director of the School of Medicine's Center for RNA Molecular Biology, has discovered an unexpected mechanism governing ...

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created Dec 24, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Cancer-associated long non-coding RNA regulates pre-mRNA splicing

Researchers report this month that MALAT1, a long non-coding RNA that is implicated in certain cancers, regulates pre-mRNA splicing - a critical step in the earliest stage of protein production. Their study appears in the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Of yeast and men: Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of Friedreich's ataxia

Researchers in human genetics have long known that expansions of GAA repeats - resulting in this nucleotide triplet repeating hundreds or thousands of times - cause the most common hereditary neurological disorder known as ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0