A biochemist from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is a co-author on a paper in Nature that describes a new, more efficient method of making ribonucleic acids (RNAs).
Biochemistry
May 4, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A team of chemists working at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, at Cambridge in the UK believes they have solved the mystery of how it was possible for life to begin on Earth over four billion years ago. ...
Astrobiologists have shown that the formation of RNA from prebiotic reactions may not be as problematic as scientists once thought.
Biochemistry
Nov 21, 2014
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Scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) and the Technische Universität München (TUM) have moved an important step closer to understanding molecular mechanisms of autoimmune ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 14, 2014
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Molecular biologists from Indiana University are part of a team that has identified a protein that regulates the information present in a large number of messenger ribonucleic acid molecules that are important for carrying ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 6, 2014
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A molecular technique that will help the scientific community to analyze—on a scale previously impossible—molecules that play a critical role in regulating gene expression has been developed by a research team led by ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 24, 2013
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From the lab to the computer: Scientists from the University of Freiburg have developed a computer program to predict the functions of bacterial gene regulators. This online software which is called CopraRNA could save researchers ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 30, 2013
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Much in the same way as we use shredders to destroy documents that are no longer useful or that contain potentially damaging information, cells use molecular machines to degrade unwanted or defective macromolecules. Scientists ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 16, 2013
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The chemical components crucial to the start of life on Earth may have primed and protected each other in never-before-realized ways, according to new research led by University of Washington scientists.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 29, 2013
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Silencing genes that have malfunctioned is an important approach for treating diseases such as cancer and heart disease. One effective approach is to deliver drugs made from small molecules of ribonucleic acid, or RNA, which ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 9, 2013
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