Like a bicycle messenger carrying blueprints across town, ribonucleic acid, or RNA, typically ferries protein-building instructions across a cell. Scientists exploring how brain cells form have found evidence that RNA does a lot more, however.
They’ve discovered a new kind of RNA that can transform unspecialized rodent brain cells into full-fledged neurons.
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