In some genes, not all of the DNA sequence is used to make protein. Introns are noncoding sections of an RNA transcript, or the DNA encoding it, that are spliced out before the RNA molecule is ...

Defects in RNA processing can promote cancer -- but the mutated proteins responsible can be hard to target. Fred Hutch Cancer ...

Interestingly, these elements reside in introns, sections of DNA flanking exons that were traditionally deemed non-functional "dark matter." However, when the TBXT gene produces RNA, the repetitive ...

What's the difference between mRNA and pre-mRNA? It's all about splicing of introns. See how one RNA sequence can exist in nearly 40,000 different forms. Next, the snRNPs U2 and U4/U6 appear to ...

In order to produce functional proteins, the cell must remove introns from precursors of messenger RNA molecules called ...

RNA binding proteins (RBPs) play a pivotal role in shaping the structure and function of RNA molecules, serving as key regulators of various cellular processes. RNA, once considered a mere ...

Researchers have discovered the mechanism which allows adult brain stem cells to express genes that maintain their identity and those for neuronal differentiation without conflicts in cellular ...

While the intron size varies widely, the location of the introns within the coding sequence is conserved, except that in the locust the second intron is missing. Therefore, we can use PCR primers that ...

origin and early evolution of eukaryotes, Protistan biodiversity, phylogenetics and systematics, Protistan ultrastructure, and molecular evolution was born, raised and educated in Sydney, Australia. I ...

Brain stem cells express both genes that maintain their identity and genes specific to the neurons they produce. This finding ...