RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome. Scientists are sequencing it to illuminate human health and disease

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint ...
News Medical

Can adding RNA sequencing to germline genetic testing improve accuracy and clinical sensitivity over time compared to DNA sequencing alone?

In a recent study published in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) Oncology, researchers from California investigated the diagnostic outcomes of concurrent sequencing of ...
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We Thought DNA Ran Our Lives until We Discovered RNA Is in Charge

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double helix ...
Nanowerk

Base Pair: The Building Blocks of DNA and RNA

Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...
Science Daily

New method uses DNA barcodes for high throughput RNA and protein detection in deep tissue

New method uses DNA barcodes for high throughput RNA and protein detection in deep tissue. ScienceDaily. Retrieved February 11, 2026 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 03 / 250311121315.htm ...
Scientific American

Revolutionary Genetics Research Shows RNA May Rule Our Genome

Thomas Gingeras did not intend to upend basic ideas about how the human body works. In 2012 the geneticist, now at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York State, was one of a few hundred colleagues ...
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Odd RNA Caps Reveal a New Kind of Gene Transcription

Scientists have found a new process that happens when an active gene is transcribed from DNA into messenger RNA.. | Cell And ...