"I'm optimistic about this year" was how I ended last week's email. lol Anyway everything went downhill almost as soon as I hit send and the United States finally and conclusively entered the period historians refer to as The Cool Zone. Soldiers sleeping in the Capitol building to protect legislators? Representatives bypassing the metal detectors set up to make sure they don't shoot other representatives?
You might be interested to know that the aaaaaa at the end is called the poly(A) tail and it terminates the mRNA produced in the nuclei of most healthy Eukaryotic cells. It promotes the translation of the RNA into protein. Also, it is gradually reduced in length, until the mRNA is broken down. RNA viruses also have these tails, for similar reasons. Having an extremely long tail would presumably keep the viral RNA replicating in our cells for longer.
You might be interested to know that the aaaaaa at the end is called the poly(A) tail and it terminates the mRNA produced in the nuclei of most healthy Eukaryotic cells. It promotes the translation of the RNA into protein. Also, it is gradually reduced in length, until the mRNA is broken down. RNA viruses also have these tails, for similar reasons. Having an extremely long tail would presumably keep the viral RNA replicating in our cells for longer.