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Proteins that read DNA backwards

Some enzymes transcribe DNA in the 'wrong' direction to create puzzling RNAs.

Over the past decade, biologists have learned to credit RNA with more respect than it once garnered. Previously thought of simply as a chemical intermediate between DNA and protein, a host of RNA oddities that can switch genes off and on has revised that view.