Yale Scientists Visualize The Machinery Of MRNA Splicing

Recent research at Yale provided a glimpse of the ancient mechanism that helped diversify our genomes; it illuminated a relationship between gene processing in humans and the most primitive organisms by creating the first crystal structure of a crucial self-splicing region of RNA. Genes of higher organisms code for production of proteins through intermediary RNA molecules.

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Filed under: Biology on April 8th, 2008