This article throws light upon the two useful applications of RNA Interference. The two useful applications are: (1) Medicine and (2) Biotechnology. Application # 1. Medicine: It may be possible to exploit RNA interference in therapy. Although it is difficult to introduce long dsRNA strands into mammalian cells due to the interferon response, the use of short interfering RNA mimics [...]
This article provides a close view on the RNA interference. Introduction: Cells use dicer to trim double stranded RNA to form small interfering RNA or microRNA. An exogenous dsRNA or endogenous pre-miRNA can be processed by dicer and incorporated into the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC), which targets single-stranded messenger RNA molecules and triggers translational repression; incorporation into the RNA-induced transcriptional [...]
Read this article to learn about the synthesis process and types of RNA. The three classical types of RNA are: (1) Messenger RNA (2) Ribosomal RNA and (3) Transfer RNA. Besides this three types of RNA, new types of RNA molecules are discovered which are involved in various activities directly or modulate the activity. They are: (1) Non-Coding RNA (2) [...]