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March 16, 2005
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RNA loops and knots guide genetic modifications
A new study has uncovered the rules of RNA recoding--a genetic-editing method cells use to expand the number of proteins assembled from the DNA code. The shape a particular RNA molecule adopts determines how the molecule gets edited inside cells.
Credit: Nicolle Rager, National Science Foundation
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