Sentences with phrase «calls riboswitches»

Molecular biologist Ronald Breaker of Yale University and his colleagues unearthed these multitalented RNA molecules — a class he calls riboswitches — after wading through decades of scientific literature and puzzling over a handful of unsolved mysteries.

In the study, which was published in the journal Nucleic Acids Research, the biologists utilised so - called riboswitches, also called RNA switches, and RNA thermometers.

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These «riboswitches,» as Breaker calls them, are apparently essential to the workings of the cell.