{"id":213410,"date":"2025-05-07T05:03:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/researchers-discover-large-protein-free-rna-structures"},"modified":"2025-05-07T05:03:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:03:56","slug":"researchers-discover-large-protein-free-rna-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/researchers-discover-large-protein-free-rna-structures","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover large protein-free RNA structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discover-large-protein-free-rna-structures2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules may be best known for their job ferrying the genetic information encoded in DNA to a cell\u2019s protein factories, but these molecules aren\u2019t just a middleman for protein production. In fact, some RNA molecules don\u2019t code for proteins at all and serve various other important functions in cells, such as regulating gene expression and catalyzing chemical reactions. However, the functions of many non-coding RNAs remain mysterious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules may be best known for their job ferrying the genetic information encoded in DNA to a cell\u2019s protein factories, but these molecules aren\u2019t just a middleman for protein production. In fact, some RNA molecules don\u2019t code for proteins at all and serve various other important functions in cells, such as regulating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213410","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}