The RNA revolution.

• Autores: Christine Gorman, Dina Fine Maron
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 310, Nº. 4, 2014, págs. 52-59
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses the emergence of ribonucleic acid (RNA) as a path toward novel medical treatments. Topics include the prominence of DNA and proteins in cytology, discoveries in the late 20th century that revealed previously unknown forms of RNA, RNA technology, called CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats), RNA's regulatory role in determining the amount and type of proteins produced by cells, and RNA-based experimental drugs.