At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how ...

Most proteins are left-handed, but scientists have found an ancient molecule that works in both mirror-image forms.

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

How life arose remains a looming question in science that researchers are seeking to answer by studying the features shared among life today. Everything alive is made up of cells, and what made the ...

To investigate whether the stability of the tertiary structure determines the speed and accuracy of RNA folding, docking of a tetraloop with its receptor in a bacterial group I ribozyme was perturbed ...

Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a streamlined process that predicts the structure of an RNA molecule down to ...

Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. The ability to predict RNA secondary structure is fundamental for understanding and manipulating RNA function.

High-resolution cryoEM structures of the intron in different liganded states not only reveal molecular interactions that rationalize experimental structure–activity relationship but also shed light on ...

When RNA molecules are synthesized by cells — a critical process in the creation of proteins and other cellular functions — they typically undergo a series of “folding” events that determine their ...

1Yale Cancer Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.