At one end is the 5' (or 5-prime) UTR, and at the other is the 3'UTR. (RNA is made up of ribonucleic acid bases, which are essentially rings of five carbon atoms.

When she assessed RNA stability, Schuster found that 150 patient-based 3’UTR mutations, many in genes known to promote cancer, changed RNA stability. Most occurred in genes that may help prostate ...