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Plant polymerases IV and V are special forms of Polymerase II

Plant polymerases IV and V are special forms of Polymerase II

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created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's a little like finding out that Superman is actually Clark Kent. A team of biologists at Washington University in St. Louis has discovered that two vital cellular components, nuclear RNA ...





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Molecular machine turns packaged messenger RNA into a linear transcript

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created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

For RNA, the gateway to a productive life outside the nucleus is the nuclear pore complex, an amalgamation of 30 kinds of proteins that regulates all traffic passing through the nuclear membrane. New research from Rockefeller ...


Researchers discover RNA repair system in bacteria

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

In new papers appearing this month in Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of Illinois biochemistry professor Raven H. Huang and his colleagues describe the first RNA repair system to be ...


Scientists first to see RNA network in live bacterial cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists who study RNA have faced a formidable roadblock: trying to examine RNA's movements in a living cell when they can't see the RNA. Now, a new technology has given scientists the first look ever at RNA in a live ...


Mutant host cell protein sequesters critical HIV-1 element

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists have identified a new way to inhibit a molecule that is critical for HIV pathogenesis. The research, published by Cell Press in the January 16th issue of the journal Molecular Cell, presents a target for develo ...


RNA emerges from DNA's shadow

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created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

RNA, the transporter of genetic information within the cell, has emerged from the shadow of DNA to become one of the hottest research areas of molecular biology, with implications for many diseases as well as understanding ...


Just like old times: Generating RNA molecules in water

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A key question in the origin of biological molecules like RNA and DNA is how they first came together billions of years ago from simple precursors. Now, in a study appearing in this week's Journal of Biological Chemistry, resear ...


Explained: RNA interference

Explained: RNA interference

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Every high school biology student learns the basics of how genes are expressed: DNA, the cell’s master information keeper, is copied into messenger RNA, which carries protein-building instructions to the ribosome, ...


Substance tackles skin cancer from two sides

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 1

By playing it safe and using a two-pronged attack, a novel designer molecule fights malignant melanoma. It was created and tested by an international team of researchers led by the University of Bonn. On the one hand, the ...


Scientists clarify editing error underlying genetic neurodegenerative disease

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created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Two molecular biologists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have uncovered important new details about how a gene mutation causes a cellular editing error that results in a devastating disease called pontocerebellar hypoplasia ...


RNA on the move

RNA on the move

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the fruit fly Drosophila, oskar mRNA, which is involved in defining the animal’s body axes, is produced in the nuclei of nurse cells neighbouring the oocyte, and must be transported to the oocyte and along ...



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