Hacker News with Generative AI: RNA

HORNET: RNA structure visualization method correlates sequence and 3D topology (phys.org)
National Cancer Institute researchers have developed a method called HORNET for characterizing 3D topological structures of large and flexible RNA molecules.

RNA, Molecular Biology, Science, Visualization, Cancer Research

42 points by bryanrasmussen 14 days ago | 8 comments

RNA-targeting CRISPR reveals that noncoding RNAs are not 'junk' (phys.org)
Genes contain instructions for making proteins, and a central dogma of biology is that this information flows from DNA to RNA to proteins. But only two percent of the human genome actually encodes proteins; the function of the remaining 98% remains largely unknown.

RNA, Genetics, Science, Biology, Non-Coding RNA

164 points by PaulHoule 50 days ago | 95 comments

NASA: Mystery of Life's Handedness Deepens (nasa.gov)
The mystery of why life uses molecules with specific orientations has deepened with a NASA-funded discovery that RNA — a key molecule thought to have potentially held the instructions for life before DNA emerged — can favor making the building blocks of proteins in either the left-hand or the right-hand orientation.

Science, Biology, Chemistry, NASA, RNA

152 points by bookofjoe 57 days ago | 90 comments

AI scans RNA 'dark matter' and uncovers 70k new viruses (nature.com)

AI, Viruses, RNA, Biology, Science

7 points by gmays 92 days ago | 0 comments

Alternate RNA decoding results in stable and abundant proteins in mammals (biorxiv.org)

RNA, Biology, Genetics, Proteins, Mammals

3 points by apsec112 143 days ago | 0 comments

RNA: Coding, or non-coding, that is the question (nature.com)

RNA, Biology, Genetics

6 points by bookofjoe 174 days ago | 0 comments

All of the bases in DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites (sciinsider.com)

DNA, RNA, Astronomy, Meteorites, Science

66 points by makiix 251 days ago | 28 comments