Illustration of RNA bound to zinc-finger antiviral protein (ZAP). ZAP binds cytosine and guanine dinucleotides in viral RNA to prevent the virus from replicating and spreading infection.

An illustration of RNA. (Illustration: Christine Daniloff/MIT) “You could use these proteins to do measurements of RNA generation, for example, or of the translation of RNA to proteins,” says Edward ...

To overcome the inherent challenge of translation termination interference caused by stop codon reprogramming in mammalian ...

Illustrations of double-stranded DNA, RNA and a wormlike bead chain model. The radial distribution of the end-to-end distance, Ree, and contour length, L, are shown.

Illustration of messenger RNA (red) produced from a DNA strand (purple). Credit: Juan Gaertner/SPL. The conventional view of RNA casts the molecule in a supporting role — the intermediary ...

The central dogma of molecular biology suggests that the primary role of RNA is to convert the information stored in DNA into proteins. In reality, there is much more to the RNA story.

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the ...

Here are three other fields where RNA is being investigated. Vaccines. The mRNA vaccines that are used to protect against SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) are the first of their kind to ...