CellBioNewsSep 5, 2024

#RNA_editing plays critical role in fruit #flies' sense of #smell and social interactions.

#drosophila #olfaction #sensing #semiochemistry #GluClα #pheromones

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RNA editing plays critical role in fruit flies' sense of smell and social interactions

Imagine your DNA as a set of instructions or a recipe book that tells your body how to make everything it needs to function, from proteins to cells. Every time the body needs to build something, it reads these instructions. But sometimes, the body can make small edits to these instructions—this is where RNA editing comes in.

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CellBioNewsJul 20, 2023

Molecular biologists identify framework for understanding #RNA_editing in a disease-causing parasite.

#mRNA #gRNA

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-molecular-biologists-framework-rna-disease-causing.html

Molecular biologists identify framework for understanding RNA editing in a disease-causing parasite

As molecular biologists at Boston University and as husband and wife, Ruslan Afasizhev and Inna Afasizheva have worked together for decades. Together, they have published dozens of papers on the mechanics of mitochondrial DNA and RNA in a single-celled, disease-causing parasite called Trypanosoma brucei. Now, years of breakthroughs have led to their latest paper published in Science, which provides a detailed look at a mystifying process called RNA editing and could potentially help treat a deadly disease.

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