Tuesday, June 30, 2026
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Predicting RNA activity expands therapeutic possibilities

With AI, it's now possible for researchers to predict the three-dimensional structures of proteins directly from their amino-acid sequences. But what biologists really want to predict, says Columbia biophysicist Hashim Al-Hashimi, is how RNA and DNA-encoded molecules behave inside their natural cell...

Predicting RNA activity expands therapeutic possibilities
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With AI, it's now possible for researchers to predict the three-dimensional structures of proteins directly from their amino-acid sequences. But what biologists really want to predict, says Columbia biophysicist Hashim Al-Hashimi, is how RNA and DNA-encoded molecules behave inside their natural cellular environments.

Originally published at Phys.org

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