Hacker News with Generative AI: RNA

RNA function follows form – why is it so hard to predict? (nature.com)
AlphaFold’s highly accurate structural models transformed protein biology,but RNA lags behind.

RNA, Biology, Science, Protein Folding, Machine Learning

7 points by sohkamyung 32 days ago | 0 comments

Biologists discover a new type of control over RNA splicing (phys.org)
MIT biologists have now discovered a new layer of regulation that helps to determine which sites on the messenger RNA molecule the spliceosome will target.

Biology, RNA, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Science

15 points by wglb 63 days ago | 3 comments

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 112 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 147 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 155 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 190 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 241 days ago | 0 comments

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

RNA, Biology, Genetics

6 points by bookofjoe 272 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 349 days ago | 28 comments