The Conversation

RNA has newly identified role: Repairing serious DNA damage to maintain the genome

Francesca Storici consults at Tessera Therapeutics. She has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both ...
Yahoo

RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome − scientists are sequencing it to illuminate human health and disease

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is still a great deal unknown about RNA and its modifications. Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library via Getty Images ...
Scientific American

How RNA Unseated DNA as the Most Important Molecule in Your Body

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of ...
GEN

“Human REPAIRome” Catalogues 20,000 DNA Scar Patterns After Double-Stranded Breaks

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up what researchers at Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) claim is one of the new breakthroughs in basic and biomedical ...
The Conversation

RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome − scientists are sequencing it to illuminate human health and disease

Marlene Belfort does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Medical Xpress

RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome. Scientists are sequencing it to illuminate human health and disease

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint for these cells is essentially the same. Where do those differences come ...
The Telegraph

RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome − scientists are sequencing it to illuminate human health and disease

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Thomas Begley, University at Albany, State University of New York and Marlene Belfort, ...