{"id":213977,"date":"2025-05-14T06:28:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/from-sequence-to-structure-a-fast-track-for-rna-modeling"},"modified":"2025-05-14T06:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:28:23","slug":"from-sequence-to-structure-a-fast-track-for-rna-modeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/from-sequence-to-structure-a-fast-track-for-rna-modeling","title":{"rendered":"From sequence to structure: A fast track for RNA modeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-sequence-to-structure-a-fast-track-for-rna-modeling2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Biology 101, we learn that RNA is a single, ribbon-like strand of base pairs that is copied from our DNA and then read like a recipe to build a protein. But there\u2019s more to the story. Some RNA strands fold into complex shapes that allow them to drive cellular processes like gene regulation and protein synthesis, or catalyze biochemical reactions.<\/p>\n<p>We know that these active molecules, called non-coding RNAs, are present in all life forms, yet we\u2019re just starting to understand their many roles\u2014and how they can be harnessed for applications in environmental science, agriculture, and medicine.<\/p>\n<p>To study\u2014and potentially modify\u2014the functions of non-coding RNAs, we need to determine their structure. Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a streamlined process that predicts the structure of an RNA molecule down to the atomic level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Biology 101, we learn that RNA is a single, ribbon-like strand of base pairs that is copied from our DNA and then read like a recipe to build a protein. But there\u2019s more to the story. Some RNA strands fold into complex shapes that allow them to drive cellular processes like gene regulation and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213977","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}