Antibiotic-driven modifications to ribosomal RNA (rRNA) have been suspected of giving rise to antibiotic resistance. For example, antibiotics can alter methylation patterns in rRNA, changing rRNA ...

The innate immune system is the body's first line of defense against pathogens and foreign substances. An essential component of this system are pattern recognition receptors, which recognize non-self ...

James Chappell, associate professor of biosciences and bioengineering at Rice University. In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, ...

As antibiotic-resistant infections rise and are projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050, scientists are looking to bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, as an alternative.

University of Chicago researchers have developed a liquid biopsy test based on modification patterns in microbiome-derived cell-free RNA that predicts colorectal cancer (CRC) with greater accuracy ...

New research published today in Nature from Ryan Flynn, MD, PhD, in collaboration with Vijay Rathinam, DVM, PhD, and his graduate student Vincent Graziano at UConn Health and other colleagues at ...

Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and Aalto University have developed a computational framework called SegPore that enhances the accuracy of RNA modification detection from direct RNA ...

RNA plays critical roles in nearly all biological processes, but current methods for sequencing RNA are significantly limited. This is partially because RNA molecules are chemically modified within ...

The RNA molecules rank among the largest and most sophisticated RNA s yet discovered and may act like enzymes or carry out other complex functions in bacteria. The RNA s are found in bacteria which ...