A study from the laboratory of Shi-Yuan Cheng, Ph.D., professor in the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology's Division ...

Introns are perhaps one of our genome’s biggest mysteries. They are DNA sequences that interrupt the sensible protein-coding ...

Introns have long been kept in the famous “junk DNA” drawer. Because they are eliminated to allow formation of messenger RNA and are inherently non-coding, they have often been neglected in high ...

Introns have long been kept in the famous “junk DNA” drawer. Because they are eliminated to allow formation of messenger RNA and are inherently non-coding, they have often been neglected in high ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sea otters are one of the few animals that use rocks and other objects to access their food, and a new study has found that individual sea otters that use tools—most of whom are female—can eat larger ...

The nucleus of each of your cells contains all the genetic information (the genome) necessary to build every type of cell and ...

Splice-site – these substitutions affect the boundaries between exons and introns (splice sites). A mutation here can prevent splicing at that site. This will result in a very different protein ...

Sometimes mutations that do not disrupt or create a splice site activate pre-existing pseudo splice sites, consistent with the proposal that introns contain splicing inhibitory sequences. These ...