Newly explored bacteria reveal some huge RNA surprises

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 14:07 in Biology & Nature

Yale University researchers have found very large RNA structures within previously unstudied bacteria that appear crucial to basic biological functions such as helping viruses infect cells or allowing genes to "jump" to different parts of the chromosome.

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