{"id":126994,"date":"2021-08-31T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T17:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/deep-learning-is-tackling-another-core-biology-mystery-rna-structure"},"modified":"2021-08-31T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T17:23:08","slug":"deep-learning-is-tackling-another-core-biology-mystery-rna-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/deep-learning-is-tackling-another-core-biology-mystery-rna-structure","title":{"rendered":"Deep Learning Is Tackling Another Core Biology Mystery: RNA Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/deep-learning-is-tackling-another-core-biology-mystery-rna-structure2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the middle child of the \u201cDNA to RNA to protein\u201d central dogma, RNA didn\u2019t get much press until its Covid-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2021\/08\/20\/modernas-mrna-vaccine-for-hiv-is-starting-human-trials-this-week\/\">vaccine contribution<\/a>. But the molecule is a double hero: it both carries genetic information, and\u2014depending on its structure\u2014can catalyze biological functions, regulate which genes are turned on, tweak your immune system, and even crazier, potentially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/trends\/neurosciences\/references\/S0166-2236(14)00220-3\">pass down \u201cmemories\u201d<\/a> through generations.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also frustratingly difficult to understand.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to proteins, RNA also folds into complicated 3D structures. The difference, explain Drs. Rhiju Das and Ron Dror at Stanford University, is that we comparatively know so little about these molecules. There are 30 times as many types of RNA as there are proteins, but the number of deciphered RNA structures is less than one percent compared to proteins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the middle child of the \u201cDNA to RNA to protein\u201d central dogma, RNA didn\u2019t get much press until its Covid-19 vaccine contribution. But the molecule is a double hero: it both carries genetic information, and\u2014depending on its structure\u2014can catalyze biological functions, regulate which genes are turned on, tweak your immune system, and even crazier, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}