Simon Fraser University researchers will use their pioneering imaging technology—called Mango, for its bright colour— to develop coronavirus testing kits. They're among a small set of Canadian researchers who responded ...
Biochemistry
Mar 19, 2020
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A novel CRISPR/Cas system that can efficiently attack and destroy several prolific plant viruses has been developed by KAUST using tobacco plants and is now being extended to rice and other crops.
Biotechnology
Mar 16, 2020
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Cells are small factories that constantly produce protein and RNA molecules by decoding the genetic information stored in the DNA of their chromosomes. The first phase of this decoding, the transcription process, 'transcribes' ...
Biotechnology
Feb 20, 2020
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Ribonucleic acids (RNA) ensure that the blueprint in the cell nucleus is translated into vital proteins and that cell functions are regulated. However, little is known about the structure and function of particularly long ...
Biotechnology
Feb 4, 2020
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In the same way that a single piece of a puzzle fits into the whole, the molecule hypoxanthine binds to a ribonucleic acid (RNA) chain, which then changes its three-dimensional shape within a second and in so doing triggers ...
Biochemistry
Jan 27, 2020
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Experimental data and computer simulations have yielded an innovative technique to characterize the configurations of an RNA molecule. The work, published in Nucleic Acids Research, opens new roads to studying dynamic molecular ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 23, 2020
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Scientists at Los Alamos and international partners have created the first 3-D images of a special type of RNA molecule that is critical for stem cell programming and known as the "dark matter" of the genome.
Biotechnology
Jan 10, 2020
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Researchers have discovered a novel parasitic gene in fruit flies that is responsible for destroying the eggs in the ovaries of their daughters.
Plants & Animals
Dec 17, 2019
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Discovering them earned their discoverers a Nobel Prize in the 1990s—microRNAs are small RNA molecules that do not code for proteins, however, they take care of an essential function: they act as regulators in gene expression, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 16, 2019
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LMU researchers have discovered a novel type of chemical modification in bacterial RNAs. The modification is apparently attached to molecules only when cells are under stress, and is rapidly removed during recovery.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 9, 2019
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