During Larry Nassar's sexual abuse trial and sentencing, victims' harrowing stories have brought to light Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a condition that is common among gymnasts, but poorly understood.
A mechanism by which different forms of mature mRNAs are generated from the same gene. Alternative splicing is a regulatory mechanism by which variations in the incorporation of the exons, or coding regions, into mRNA leads to the production of more than one related protein, or isoform. RNA interference.
When this base-pairing happens, RNA uses uracil (yellow) instead of thymine to pair with adenine (green) in the DNA template below. Thus, the elongation period of transcription creates a new mRNA molecule from a single template strand of DNA.