{"id":213474,"date":"2025-05-07T10:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/biochemical-method-offers-view-into-earliest-stages-of-rna-production"},"modified":"2025-05-07T10:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:15:11","slug":"biochemical-method-offers-view-into-earliest-stages-of-rna-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/biochemical-method-offers-view-into-earliest-stages-of-rna-production","title":{"rendered":"Biochemical method offers view into earliest stages of RNA production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biochemical-method-offers-view-into-earliest-stages-of-rna-production2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When RNA molecules are synthesized by cells\u2014a critical process in the creation of proteins and other cellular functions\u2014they typically undergo a series of \u201cfolding\u201d events that determine their structure and the role they will play in expressing genetic information in living organisms.<\/p>\n<p>Until recently, however, not much was known about these folding processes that occur very early in the life of RNA molecules.<\/p>\n<p>But Yale researchers have now developed a method to map and measure the structure of RNA as it develops, an advance that may help scientists design more effective treatments for a host of diseases. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S109727652500187X\" target=\"_blank\">findings<\/a> are described in the journal Molecular Cell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When RNA molecules are synthesized by cells\u2014a critical process in the creation of proteins and other cellular functions\u2014they typically undergo a series of \u201cfolding\u201d events that determine their structure and the role they will play in expressing genetic information in living organisms. Until recently, however, not much was known about these folding processes that occur [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213474","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\/213474","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}