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Study has uncovered rules of RNA recoding
A new study has uncovered the rules of RNA recoding -- a genetic-editing method cells use to expand the number of proteins assembled from a single DNA code. The shape a particular RNA molecule adopts determines how the molecule gets edited inside cells.
This image accompanied NSF press release, "Mechanism of RNA Recoding: New Twists in Brain Protein Production."
Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation
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