2026 Brenda L. Bass: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	56	2188	1970	1086	963	98	16979

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

1781
Citations
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

1303
Citations
An unwinding activity that covalently modifies its double-stranded RNA substrate.

Brenda L. Bass;Harold Weintraub

943
Citations
Biological catalysis by RNA.

Thomas R. Cech;Brenda L. Bass

937
Citations
Double-Stranded RNA as a Template for Gene Silencing

Brenda L Bass

761
Citations
A developmentally regulated activity that unwinds RNA duplexes

Brenda L. Bass;Harold Weintraub

567
Citations
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

497
Citations
RNA interference. The short answer.

Brenda L. Bass

497
Citations
RNA editing of hepatitis delta virus antigenome by dsRNA-adenosine deaminase

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

463
Citations
Predicting sites of ADAR editing in double-stranded RNA

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

457
Citations
Preferential selection of adenosines for modification by double-stranded RNA adenosine deaminase.

Andrew G. Polson;Brenda L. Bass

410
Citations
Inosine exists in mRNA at tissue-specific levels and is most abundant in brain mRNA.

Michael S. Paul;Brenda L. Bass

382
Citations
Double-stranded RNA adenosine deaminases ADAR1 and ADAR2 have overlapping specificities.

Katrina A. Lehmann;Brenda L. Bass

380
Citations
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

369
Citations
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

312
Citations
A standardized nomenclature for adenosine deaminases that act on RNA.

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

286
Citations
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

270
Citations
RNA editing and hypermutation by adenosine deamination

Brenda L. Bass

267
Citations
The importance of internal loops within RNA substrates of ADAR1.

Katrina A. Lehmann;Brenda L. Bass

246
Citations
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

224
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold Weintraub Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Thomas R. Cech University of Colorado Boulder

Walter Keller University of Basel

Kazuko Nishikura The Wistar Institute

Charles E. Samuel University of California, Santa Barbara

Michael B. Eisen University of California, Berkeley

Gisela Storz National Institutes of Health

Susan Gottesman National Institutes of Health

Allan C. Spradling Carnegie Institution for Science

Mark Groudine Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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