Messenger RNA, or mRNA, has been in the news recently as a crucial component of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. The nucleic acid looks, for all intents and purposes, like a strand of DNA that has been sliced the long way. It’s what’s known as single-stranded RNA (ssRNA), and it can be found throughout the natural world.
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Source: Phys.org