{"id":221188,"date":"2025-08-30T04:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/ai-tool-targets-rna-structures-to-unravel-secrets-of-the-dark-genome"},"modified":"2025-08-30T04:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:14:13","slug":"ai-tool-targets-rna-structures-to-unravel-secrets-of-the-dark-genome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/ai-tool-targets-rna-structures-to-unravel-secrets-of-the-dark-genome","title":{"rendered":"AI tool targets RNA structures to unravel secrets of the dark genome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-tool-targets-rna-structures-to-unravel-secrets-of-the-dark-genome3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We mapped the human genome decades ago, but most of it is still a black box. Now, UNSW scientists have developed a tool to peer inside and what they find could reshape how we think about disease.<\/p>\n<p>Your genome is the genetic map of you, and we understand almost none of it.<\/p>\n<p>Our handle on the bits of the genome that tell the body how to do things (\u201cmake eyes blue,\u201d \u201cbuild <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/heart+tissue\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heart tissue<\/a>,\u201d \u201cgive this person sickle cell anemia\u201d) is OK, but there are vast areas of the genome that don\u2019t appear to do anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We mapped the human genome decades ago, but most of it is still a black box. Now, UNSW scientists have developed a tool to peer inside and what they find could reshape how we think about disease. Your genome is the genetic map of you, and we understand almost none of it. Our handle on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221188","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\/221188","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=221188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}