The poly-A tail is a long chain of adenine nucleotides that is added to a messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule during RNA processing to increase the stability of the molecule. Immediately after a gene in ...

They also found that the related RNA molecule can be cut in a variety ... Notably, evolutionary biologists hypothesize that the loss of the tail allowed humans to become bipedal, according to ...

In their initial experiments, the researchers injected "naked" RNA strands into the tail veins of mice using a high-pressure, rapid-transfusion method to ensure that the RNA strands were taken up ...

Does it all have the poly(A) tail at the end? These are the sorts of things that the ... about the diversity of ways in which the input, the RNA, is actually taken up into the cell, processed, and ...