Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a linear molecule composed of four types of smaller molecules called ribonucleotide bases: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and uracil (U). RNA is often compared ...

higher-order structures obtained through complementary base-pair folding. From the RNA Tie Club to today, the more scientists have studied RNA, the more surprises they have uncovered. New ...

Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...

Stanford Medicine researchers have developed a blood test capable of detecting cancers, the ways cancer resists treatments ...

All five nucleobases that make up DNA and RNA have now been detected in meteorite samples ... as terrestrial soil and other environments also contain nucleotide bases. “I think [the researchers] ...

One day, scientists hope to create RNA machines that could become the basis of lifesaving therapies. But to do this, they need to understand exactly how a given strand of RNA will fold in three ...

RNA-based therapies, such as small interfering RNA (siRNA) and antisense oligonucleotide (ASOs), rely on the specific base-pairing properties of uracil to target and regulate disease-related genes. In ...