How to Use RNA in a Sentence

RNA

noun

• This long stretch of RNA parks itself in spots along a cell's extra X chromosome, attracts proteins that bind to it in weird clumps, and silences the chromosome.
  — TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
• In future studies, the team hopes to use the discovery of this stealth RNA delivery system to create more eco-friendly fungicides.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2023
• The fish make fewer functional copies of an RNA that helps shut down transposable element movement.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2024
• Normally, genes are processed before transcription in order to make a readable strand of RNA.
  — Joel Richter, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
• These vaccines use a fragment of the virus's genetic material (RNA) to teach your cells to make a protein that triggers an immune response.
  — Ayana Byrd, Health, 7 Jan. 2024
• The work is a challenge, however, because samples often contain very low levels of active viral RNA, the molecule in which flu genomes are written.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024
• This non-greasy serum also uses exosomes (small vesicles packed with protein, lipids, and plant RNA) to encourage cellular renewal at the scalp and defend against stress.
  — Deanna Pai, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2024
• Just as those machines take plastic molecules and use them to construct objects of any shape, ribosomes take genetic information from RNA and use it to crank out proteins.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• Stroup says the team also plans to re-create their research in other organisms to see how RNA transcription changes between different animals.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Jan. 2024
• Current hypertension medications focus on hormones that cause high blood pressure; this one targets the RNA that creates the hormones.
  — Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2023
• Capstan is developing therapies that modulate unhealthy cells inside the body — rather than editing the cells outside of the body — through RNA delivery methods.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
• In 2005, the pair discovered how to chemically modify one of the letters of RNA to nearly eliminate the inflammatory response.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2023
• This will look at RNA medicines, monoclonal antibodies, and base-editing as novel options to improve coronary artery disease.
  — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 10 Nov. 2023
• The finding suggests that chiral RNA preferentially makes proteins of the opposite chirality, as is seen in nature.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• The startup is developing breakthroughs in RNA medicine, which has applications for treatments for genetic diseases.
  — Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 2 June 2023
• With that sample, scientists have found evidence suggesting that asteroids had delivered water to the early Earth, and discovered the presence of uracil — a building block of RNA, a molecule that helps form proteins.
  — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• The research states that a type of RNA produced by a woman’s X chromosomes creates proteins that could make the immune system attack itself if genetic predisposition or other factors are present.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
• The researchers also sequenced RNA in astronauts’ blood, finding that the stress of spaceflight affected the transcription of immune system genes, possibly reducing the body’s ability to defend against viruses.
  — science.org, 21 June 2024
• So the researchers suspect that RNA editing plays a role in protecting the invertebrates’ neurons from temperature fluctuations.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 8 June 2023
• However, for applications other than vaccines, a cleaner RNA product is necessary to reduce side effects.
  — Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
• This non-coding RNA coordinates the processes of life in a complex network of operations--switching, shepherding, binding and so on — to control this enormous ballet of molecular construction.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
• Su and her colleagues were able to characterize the RNA into five distinct genetic profiles or time periods of embryonic development: the oocyte or egg, zygote or fertilized egg, cleavage, morula and blastocyst stages.
  — Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 17 Jan. 2024
• One study published today in Science used single-nucleus RNA sequencing to measure the gene expression of individual brain cells in humans and five other primate species, including chimpanzees and gorillas.
  — Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
• These data were gathered using a technique called single-cell RNA sequencing, which lets researchers catalog individual cells' molecular profiles instead of averaging them in a bulk tissue sample.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 21 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024