How to Use RNA in a Sentence

RNA

noun

• Obelisks are somewhat like these because they are made of RNA.
  — Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
• This isn't the first time RNA has been honored recently.
  — Alice Park, TIME, 7 Oct. 2024
• Later, scientists could search for the RNA from a new variant and trace it back to its source.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2025
• These included the amino acid glycine and uracil, a nucleotide base in RNA.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2025
• This long stretch of RNA parks itself in spots along a cell's extra X chromosome, attracts proteins that bind to it in weird clumps, and silences the chromosome.
  — TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
• But scientists are finding that our bodies are also home to exquisitely tiny rings of free-floating RNA.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
• This finding suggested that the small RNA was somehow inhibiting it.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
• In addition, a protein model could not generate the RNA.
  — Ingrid Wickelgren, Quanta Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
• In future studies, the team hopes to use the discovery of this stealth RNA delivery system to create more eco-friendly fungicides.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2023
• In this image, each color represents a different type of RNA.
  — Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
• The fish make fewer functional copies of an RNA that helps shut down transposable element movement.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2024
• Scientists were able to extract RNA fragments from the Tasmanian tiger’s tongue, nasal cavity, brain and eye, per the statement.
  — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024
• Normally, genes are processed before transcription in order to make a readable strand of RNA.
  — Joel Richter, The Conversation, 26 July 2023
• These vaccines use a fragment of the virus's genetic material (RNA) to teach your cells to make a protein that triggers an immune response.
  — Ayana Byrd, Health, 7 Jan. 2024
• The work is a challenge, however, because samples often contain very low levels of active viral RNA, the molecule in which flu genomes are written.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024
• This non-greasy serum also uses exosomes (small vesicles packed with protein, lipids, and plant RNA) to encourage cellular renewal at the scalp and defend against stress.
  — Deanna Pai, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2024
• Recent studies have helped shed light on the debate, with many using single-cell RNA sequencing and other advanced technologies to look at parts of the brain, such as the hippocampus and the subventricular zone.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2025
• Just as those machines take plastic molecules and use them to construct objects of any shape, ribosomes take genetic information from RNA and use it to crank out proteins.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• Stroup says the team also plans to re-create their research in other organisms to see how RNA transcription changes between different animals.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Jan. 2024
• In particular, short strands of RNA called aptamers securely bind to other molecules.
  — Philip Ball, Wired News, 8 June 2025
• Current hypertension medications focus on hormones that cause high blood pressure; this one targets the RNA that creates the hormones.
  — Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2023
• Capstan is developing therapies that modulate unhealthy cells inside the body — rather than editing the cells outside of the body — through RNA delivery methods.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2024
• The Catalan numbers also play a role in biology, helping count the possible folding patterns of RNA molecules.
  — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
• The breakdown of complex molecules typically involves more than one enzyme, and the genes for these enzymes tend to end up clustered together, so that they can be produced as a single, large RNA that encodes all the proteins needed.
  — ArsTechnica, 7 May 2025
• In 2005, the pair discovered how to chemically modify one of the letters of RNA to nearly eliminate the inflammatory response.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2023
• This will look at RNA medicines, monoclonal antibodies, and base-editing as novel options to improve coronary artery disease.
  — Meghana Keshavan, STAT, 10 Nov. 2023
• On the Earth, this progression likely started with simple reproductive molecules like RNA.
  — ArsTechnica, 26 Mar. 2025
• The finding suggests that chiral RNA preferentially makes proteins of the opposite chirality, as is seen in nature.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• The development of the Covid vaccine relied on a public–private partnership that built on years of research into synthesizing RNA molecules.
  — David Oshinsky, The New York Review of Books, 6 Mar. 2025
• The startup is developing breakthroughs in RNA medicine, which has applications for treatments for genetic diseases.
  — Lucy Brewster, Fortune, 2 June 2023