The Chemical Biology of Nucleic Acids Group led by Hana Cahová uses chemical tools to understand biological systems. Specifically, RNA.
RNA has long been thought to be merely a carrier of information from the gene to the ribosome, where it is translated into protein. Recently, however, it has been shown that RNA is not just a mediator but that it has many other roles that we do not even know about. The goal of the group is to reveal these roles...
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