Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed the first-ever method of detecting ribonucleic acid, or RNA, ...

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Two molecular control factors play a decisive role in what is known as splicing, the cutting and assembly of mature messenger ...

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The discovery could pave the way for a groundbreaking RNA-based multi-cancer treatment. Alternative RNA splicing functions ...

The results of this work reveal how an alternative splicing mechanism regulates an essential factor for neuronal identity.

Alternative splicing (AS) of pre-mRNA plays a crucial role in tissue-specific gene regulation, with disease implications due to splicing defects. Predicting and manipulating AS can therefore uncover ...

Similarly, cells splice RNA in different ways to produce a variety of proteins from a single gene, fine-tuning their function based on need. However, when cancer rewrites the script, this process goes ...

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