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Finally, I collect perturbation data, by monitoring RNA levels when specific elements of the network are disabled. In this way, I formulated several general principles of RNA regulation and its temporal evolution in mammalian cells. I find that temporal changes in production provide a dominant input in computing RNA levels by the cell over time. Yet, dynamic degradation changes contribute to shaping expression peaks, and dynamic processing changes allow a fast accumulation of mature transcripts. Static degradation and processing rates vary between genes and between individual splicing junctions, consistently with their function and expression dynamics. 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