The spliceosome: Scientists are unraveling the secrets of the mechanism that snips our genes

Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 17:01 in Biology & Nature

Certain diseases such as cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy are linked to genetic mutations that damage the important biological process of rearranging gene sequences in pre-messenger RNA, a procedure called RNA splicing.

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