RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome − scientists are sequencing it to illuminate human health and disease

Researchers are embarking on the RNA equivalent of the Human Genome Project, including sequencing all the chemical ...
Yahoo

RNA has newly identified role: Repairing serious DNA damage to maintain the genome

Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a double-strand break involves the severing of both strands of the DNA double ...
Phys.org

The RNA revolution: How our understanding of life's blueprint is being rewritten

For decades, the central dogma of molecular biology—DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease. This model explained ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Self-building RNA strand may expose how life on Earth truly began

Two separate laboratory breakthroughs have produced RNA molecules that can build copies of themselves or assemble functional structures without any help from proteins or DNA. These results offer the ...
Scientific American

How RNA Unseated DNA as the Most Important Molecule in Your Body

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of ...
PharmiWeb

Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces Kit Enabling Protein, DNA and RNA Analysis from a Single Sample

Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces Sequential Protein/DNA/RNA Extraction Kit That Enables Genomic, Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analysis from a Single Sample to Support Cancer and Disease ...