Proteins carry out many of the essential function of cells, and scientists have spent years learning about the expression of protein-coding genes. When genes are active, they are transcribed as ...

The function of non-coding RNA in the cell has long been a mystery to researchers. Unlike coding RNA, non-coding RNA does not produce proteins – yet it exists in large quantities. A research team from ...

Scientists have discovered that centromeric DNA is used as a template to produce a non-protein coding, centromeric RNA (ribonucleic acid), that is essential for chromosome stability. If there is ...

Dysregulation of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) promotes pancreatic cancer growth, metastasis, treatment resistance, and cancer stemness. To shed light on the mechanisms behind their dysregulation ...

Platform Opens Up Study of Non-Coding RNA’s Role The seed of the new approach to studying lncRNAs came from conversations between the paper’s two lead authors, John Liu and Max Horlbeck, who are ...

A new study published in the journal Cell shows that a non-coding RNA molecule regulates mitochondrial gene expression in human cells. The work results from a collaboration between the University ...

Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are RNA molecules that do not encode proteins but are involved in dynamic cellular regulatory processes.1 These molecules influence various central nervous system (CNS ...

Most of the DNA in the nucleus of each of our cells is converted into RNA, but only a small fraction of these RNAs "code" for proteins. What the remaining "non-coding" RNAs (ncRNAs) do within ...

Jpx is the first form of RNA to be identified as playing a vital role in regulating the behavior of CTCF, but there will be many others, predicts Lee.

Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing production of certain messenger RNAs and appear to help cells respond to ...