The innate immune system is the body's first line of defense against pathogens and foreign substances. An essential component ...

The innate immune system is the body's first line of defense against pathogens and foreign substances. An essential component of this system are pattern recognition receptors, which recognize non-self ...

This RNA-containing complex can then inhibit transcription of an mRNA molecule that has a sequence complementary to its RNA component. siRNAs were first defined by their participation in RNA ...

Using the new RNA origami technique, they succeeded in producing nanotubes that fold into cytoskeleton-like structures. The ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the ...

Adding the protein components through genetic engineering is a feat in itself; whether they’ll assemble with the mirrored RNA into functional mirror ribosomes is totally unknown. But the team have ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the ...

Like many other RNA-imaging systems, Riboglow is a two-part system made up of an RNA component and a fluorescent component. The sequence of the RNA component, the aptamer, can be fused to the 3' end ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

Aided by RNA origami, the Heidelberg synthetic biologist and her team succeeded in creating an essential structural component of synthetic cells – an artificial cytoskeleton. The RNA microtubes, which ...