Scientists at IOCB Prague are uncovering new details of gene transcription. They have identified a previously unknown ...

Scientists can peer into cells to get a limited view of their activity using microscopes and other tools. However, cells and ...

A Purdue University team has discovered a new therapeutic target for triple-negative breast cancer. The research, led by Kyle ...

CRISPR-Cas13, a powerful RNA-targeting technology is gaining increasing attention as a next-generation gene therapy platform due to its precision and reduced side effects. Utilizing this system, ...

(Nanowerk News) With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai say they have made a new discovery about how human cells make RNA, a molecule that functions as a set of blueprints that tell cells how to ...

A new role has been uncovered for a cell's own RNA in fending off attacks by RNA viruses. Some of the cell's RNA molecules, researchers found, help regulate antiviral signaling. These signals are part ...

Apart from carrying the information to encode proteins in, RNA molecules can adopt intricate 2D and 3D structures. Specifically, the same RNA molecule can switch between ON and OFF structures, ...

According to research from a team at the University of Utah Health and the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, ...

Learn more about the DNA and RNA that sperm carry and how they may suddenly change during midlife.