Human genes that encode proteins often contain non-coding segments known as introns. Removing introns is crucial for the proper expression of genetic information. Understanding how our cells ...

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Alternative splicing (AS), a ...

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed ...

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Envisagenics focuses on using AI to analyse errors in RNA splicing, a process in which a precursor form of messenger RNA (mRNA) – which is used as a template for ...

Then the RNA binding protein communicates to the splicing machinery to include ... At the posttranscriptional level, nonsense mediated decay (NMD) is a process closely linked to alternative splicing ...

Announcing a new publication for Acta Materia Medica journal. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data from published datasets were obtained to investigate the expression and dysregulation of ...

Less than a decade ago, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor Adrian Krainer showed this brutal disease can be treated by tweaking a process called RNA splicing. This breakthrough ...

Karen is a science journalism intern at The Scientist. Her PhD and post doctoral research was in molecular biology. She has previously written for Science, Creative Nonfiction, and Altasea. View Full ...