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Folate is needed to make DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid) and helps produce healthy red blood cells.
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Lainey Younkin, Ms, Rd, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2024
The synthesis of ribonucleic acid requires various nitrile precursor molecules, such as hydrogen cyanide, cyanoacetylene and cyanogen, which can only form in certain conditions.
—Discover Magazine, 24 July 2023
Since the pandemic began this spring, scientists have learned that the ribonucleic acid, or RNA, of the coronavirus, which causes covid-19, can be detected in feces, and that infected individuals shed particles in their stool soon after being infected.
—Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2020
Unlike conventional vaccines, which use a live virus to trigger an immune response in humans, those made using messenger ribonucleic acid, mRNA, carry genetic instructions that generate a spike protein to develop antibodies against infections.
—Rajesh Roy, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2021
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Lainey Younkin, Ms, Rd, Verywell Health, 22 Mar. 2024
The synthesis of ribonucleic acid requires various nitrile precursor molecules, such as hydrogen cyanide, cyanoacetylene and cyanogen, which can only form in certain conditions.
—Discover Magazine, 24 July 2023
Since the pandemic began this spring, scientists have learned that the ribonucleic acid, or RNA, of the coronavirus, which causes covid-19, can be detected in feces, and that infected individuals shed particles in their stool soon after being infected.
—Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2020
Unlike conventional vaccines, which use a live virus to trigger an immune response in humans, those made using messenger ribonucleic acid, mRNA, carry genetic instructions that generate a spike protein to develop antibodies against infections.
—Rajesh Roy, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2021
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ribonucleic acid
noun
ri·bo·nu·cle·ic acid
ˌrī-bō-n(y)u̇-ˌklē-ik- 
-ˌklā-
: rna
Medical Definition
ribonucleic acid
noun
ri·bo·nu·cle·ic acid
ˌrī-bō-n(y)u̇-ˌklē-ik-
-ˌklā-
-ˌklā-
: rna
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