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Brenda L. Bass publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brenda L. Bass sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 98 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Brenda L. Bass D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brenda L. Bass sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Brenda L. Bass is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research spans multiple scientific fields, with a significant focus on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Molecular Biology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Key subfields covered are:

  • Geophysics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Environmental Chemistry

Brenda L. Bass's research topics include:

  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
  • RNA regulation and disease
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

The scientist has published extensively, with numerous contributions to various publication venues. Frequent venues include:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Family Relations
  • RNA

Representative recent papers by Brenda L. Bass are:

  • "The competitive landscape of the dsRNA world," 2023, Molecular Cell
  • "In vitro studies provide insight into effects of Dicer-2 helicase mutations in Drosophila melanogaster," 2020, RNA
  • "Ancestral protein reconstruction reveals evolutionary events governing variation in Dicer helicase function," 2023, eLife
  • "Transient kinetic studies of the antiviral Drosophila Dicer-2 reveal roles of ATP in self-nonself discrimination," 2021, eLife
  • "Caenorhabditis elegans Dicer acts with the RIG-I-like helicase DRH-1 and RDE-4 to cleave dsRNA," 2024, eLife

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Peter Shen
  • Helen Donelick
  • Adedeji M. Aderounmu
  • P. Joseph Aruscavage
  • Claudia Consalvo

Brenda L. Bass has received recognition from scientific communities, including election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2015 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.

Best Publications

  • RNA Editing by Adenosine Deaminases That Act on RNA

    Brenda L. Bass

  • A Role for the RNase III Enzyme DCR-1 in RNA Interference and Germ Line Development in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Scott W. Knight;Brenda L. Bass

  • An unwinding activity that covalently modifies its double-stranded RNA substrate.

    Brenda L. Bass;Harold Weintraub

  • Biological catalysis by RNA.

    Thomas R. Cech;Brenda L. Bass

  • Double-Stranded RNA as a Template for Gene Silencing

    Brenda L Bass

  • A developmentally regulated activity that unwinds RNA duplexes

    Brenda L. Bass;Harold Weintraub

  • Inositol Hexakisphosphate Is Bound in the ADAR2 Core and Required for RNA Editing

    Mark R. Macbeth;Mark R. Macbeth;Heidi L. Schubert;Andrew P. VanDemark;Arunth T. Lingam;Arunth T. Lingam

  • RNA interference. The short answer.

    Brenda L. Bass

  • RNA editing of hepatitis delta virus antigenome by dsRNA-adenosine deaminase

    Andrew G. Polson;Brenda L. Bass;John L. Casey

  • Predicting sites of ADAR editing in double-stranded RNA

    Julie M. Eggington;Tom Greene;Brenda L. Bass

  • Preferential selection of adenosines for modification by double-stranded RNA adenosine deaminase.

    Andrew G. Polson;Brenda L. Bass

  • Inosine exists in mRNA at tissue-specific levels and is most abundant in brain mRNA.

    Michael S. Paul;Brenda L. Bass

  • Double-stranded RNA adenosine deaminases ADAR1 and ADAR2 have overlapping specificities.

    Katrina A. Lehmann;Brenda L. Bass

  • Specific interaction between the self-splicing RNA of Tetrahymena and its guanosine substrate: implications for biological catalysis by RNA

    Brenda L. Bass;Thomas R. Cech

  • RNA editing by ADARs is important for normal behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Leath A. Tonkin;Lisa Saccomanno;Daniel P. Morse;Daniel P. Morse;Thomas Brodigan

  • A standardized nomenclature for adenosine deaminases that act on RNA.

    B. L. Bass;Kazuko Nishikura;Walter Keller;Peter H. Seeburg

  • RNA hairpins in noncoding regions of human brain and Caenorhabditis elegans mRNA are edited by adenosine deaminases that act on RNA.

    Daniel P. Morse;P. Joseph Aruscavage;Brenda L. Bass

  • RNA editing and hypermutation by adenosine deamination

    Brenda L. Bass

  • The importance of internal loops within RNA substrates of ADAR1.

    Katrina A. Lehmann;Brenda L. Bass

  • Biased hypermutation of viral RNA genomes could be due to unwinding/modification of double-stranded RNA

    Brenda L. Bass;Harold Weintraub;Roberto Cattaneo;Martin A. Billeter

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold Weintraub
Harold Weintraub Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Thomas R. Cech
Thomas R. Cech University of Colorado Boulder
Walter Keller
Walter Keller University of Basel
Kazuko Nishikura
Kazuko Nishikura The Wistar Institute
Charles E. Samuel
Charles E. Samuel University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael B. Eisen
Michael B. Eisen University of California, Berkeley
Gisela Storz
Gisela Storz National Institutes of Health
Susan Gottesman
Susan Gottesman National Institutes of Health
Allan C. Spradling
Allan C. Spradling Carnegie Institution for Science
Mark Groudine
Mark Groudine Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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