An eminent group of researchers of the Stanford University School of Medicine has come out with a new discovery that RNA or ribonucleic acid, a specific molecule that has been considered in the beginning only a lowly messenger for DNA, nevertheless take the part of an important role maker in giving permission to the cells to know in which particular part of the body they are and what they are supposed to become. This has been stated as a novel finding that could have imperative and far-reaching implications in the saga of the researches of stem cell. It has also been confirmed by the researchers that their finding in due course involves that ancient RNA molecules can coordinate the gene activity from corner to corner of the vast portions of the human genome, the genetic blueprint of a definite cell along with suggesting that they have enough potential to become decisive in respect of cancer development and sheer maintenance of the stem cell.

By and large, the work adds together a substantial notion to the general growth of evidence while suggesting that RNA is more than a mere genomic servant. But though a much has already been discussed what are the viable activities of the RNA? The RNA is best known for the ferrying of protein-coding instructions from the DNA, which was once supposed to be the chief molecule of the genome, to the cell's assembly factories. However, there have been endless cracks in this theory that has rendered the conventional notion to be futile and it all began to cast its shadow at the particular point of time when it became apparent that there are several RNA molecules that somehow fail and are not competent enough in the making of protein. In conformity with this the longer pieces known as the non-coding RNAs have been more confounding despite the fact that the scientific researches in the recent days has been possible to demonstrate that the infinitesimal fragments of RNA are quite competent to put an end to the individual genes.   

When being questioned by this correspondent from the ever inquisitive Press Dr. John Rinn, a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Dr. Howard Chang, M.D., a recognized assistant professor of dermatology said, "These ncRNAs have long been molecules of mystery. They look just like they should code for proteins, but they don't."