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ReviewMolecular diagnosis & therapy2026

RNA Aptamers and Epitranscriptomics: Charting Unexplored Territories in RNA Biology.

Mehran Khorshid, Ehsan Pashay Ahi

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Review in Molecular diagnosis & therapy, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Bridging maternal effects and epitranscriptomics: A novel perspective in developmental biology.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Mehran KhorshidLaboratory for Soft Matter and Biophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, 3001, Leuven, Belgium. mehran.khorshid@kuleuven.be.
Ehsan Pashay AhiOrganismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Viikinkaari 9, 00014, Helsinki, Finland. ehsan.pashayahi@helsinki.fi.ORCID 0000-0002-6528-1187

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The fields of RNA aptamers and epitranscriptomics have each emerged as powerful dimensions of RNA biology, yet their conceptual and mechanistic overlap remains largely unexplored. RNA aptamers as in vitro-selected single-stranded RNA oligonucleotides selected through in vitro evolution (Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment [SELEX]) and related methods are well known for their ability to fold into precise three-dimensional structures and bind specific targets with high affinity. These aptamers have been widely used in diagnostics, therapeutics, and molecular sensing. In parallel, the dynamic landscape of epitranscriptomic modifications, such as N

Indexed as

Aptamers, NucleotideRNAAdenosineAnimalsEpitranscriptomeEpitranscriptomicsHumansRNA MethylationSELEX Aptamer TechniqueAdenosineAptamers, NucleotideN-methyladenosineRNA

Identifiers

PMID41838348
PMCPMC13171942

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