The central dogma of molecular biology suggests that the primary role of RNA is to convert the information stored in DNA into proteins. In reality, there is much more to the RNA story.

A long-standing question in the field has been whether RNA in cells helps keep the genome stable beyond acting as a copy of DNA in the process of making proteins and a regulator of gene expression ...

DNA may have mixed with RNA to produce the first life on Earth Key building blocks of DNA and RNA can be made from the same raw materials. This finding suggests that instead of one or the other ...

Researchers mix RNA and DNA to study how life's process began billions of years ago Date: September 17, 2019 Source: Scripps Research Institute Summary: ...

A 2-gram chunk from this rock — a piece of the meteorite that fell near Murchison, Australia, in 1969 — contains two crucial components of DNA and RNA now identified for the first time in an ...

Small Cajal body-associated RNA 2 (scaRNA2) regulates DNA repair pathway choice by inhibiting DNA-PK. Nature Communications , 2022; 13 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28646-5 Cite This Page : ...

Until now, DNA and RNA epigenetics were studied as independent systems. These two mechanisms seemed to function separately, each playing its own role in distinct stages of the gene regulation process.

RNA has newly identified role: Repairing serious DNA damage to maintain the genome Published: June 16, 2025 8:39am EDT Francesca Storici , Georgia Institute of Technology ...