'Junk' RNA segments found to play role in protein production and cell stress response
Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing ...
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Splicing twins: unravelling the secrets of the minor spliceosome complex
Human genes that encode proteins often contain non-coding segments known as introns. Removing introns is crucial for the proper expression of genetic information. Understanding how our cells ...
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Advancing Gene Therapy: Enzyme Selection For Effective RNA Oligonucleotide Mapping
New gene therapy modalities, such as CRISPR guide RNA (single guide ribonucleic acid [sgRNA]) and messenger RNA (mRNA), ...
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Akribion Therapeutics emerges from stealth with programmable cell depletion RNA technology
Akribion Therapeutics emerges from stealth with €8 million in seed funding to develop a novel cancer RNA-guided approach ...
Disruption of a single amino acid in a cellular protein makes breast cancer cells behave like stem cells
Vimentin is a type III intermediate filament (IF) protein normally expressed in cells that develop into connective tissue, ...
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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 ...
Complex engineering of human cell lines reveals genome's unexpected resilience to structural changes
The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more ...