Recipients Schreiber and Schultz will each receive $500K prize for work on chemical probes, unnatural amino acids, and new ...

In a comprehensive research study, scientists have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism explaining how neurons survive ...

Transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) is a type of RNA molecule that helps decode a messenger RNA (mRNA) sequence into a protein. tRNAs function at specific sites in the ribosome during translation ...

Researchers find mutations causing developmental disabilities in humans have similar effects in yeast, aiding drug testing ...

An RNA's structure determines how the molecule functions, including whether it acts as a tRNA (transfer RNA), an rRNA (ribosomal RNA), or an mRNA (messenger RNA). Each of these molecule types ...

tRNAs have a distinct cloverleaf secondary structure and an L-shaped tertiary structure. The cloverleaf structure is formed by the folding of the single-stranded tRNA molecule, which is typically ...

Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) Transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules are responsible for delivering ...

That is why a new study in Nature Aging is so exciting. Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, have figured out ...

Traditionally overlooked in Parkinson’s research, tRFs (transfer RNA fragments) are small RNA molecules with the potential to reveal significant changes in the body linked to neurodegeneration.

Their findings suggest that the variant diminishes cells' supply of transfer RNA, a molecule that is critical for assembling proteins. When this happens, embryonic face cells are unable to fuse to ...