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THE ELABORATE ARCHITECTURE OF RNA

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Cells contain an ocean of twisting and turning RNA molecules. Now researchers are working out the structures — and how important they could be.

When Philip Bevilacqua decided to work out the shapes of all the RNA molecules in a living plant cell, he faced two problems. First, he had not studied plant biology since high school. And second, biochemists had tended to examine single RNA molecules; tackling the multitudes that waft around in a cell was a much thornier challenge.

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