New Way To Change Genetic Code

DNA codes for proteins, and, in doing so, is responsible for many processes that take place in our bodies. An important player in the processes that turn a DNA sequence into a functional protein (see figure 1), is messenger RNA, or mRNA. A recent study, published in Nature, has found a way to artificially modify this mRNA. This changes the ‘building instructions’ of the protein and results in a different protein than the one that was originally coded for.Figure 1: From DNA to protein. (Source: http://www.dna-sequencing-service.com/dna-sequencing/mrna-dna/)read more

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