In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive ...

Alternative splicing (AS) of pre-mRNA plays a crucial role in tissue-specific gene regulation, with disease implications due to splicing defects. Predicting and manipulating AS can therefore uncover ...

Imagine a world where we could predict the behavior of life just by analyzing a sequence of letters. This is not science ...

Findings show potential for new lipid-based delivery formulations as a platform technology for immunizationPhiladelphia, PA, ...

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 of the natural ...

With a protein large language model, the team was able to cluster ... binding part of the protein. In some, the RNA-binding region is adjacent to a DNA-cutting part of the protein.

Nobel Laureate and University of Chicago professor Jack Szostak delivered two lectures on the origin of life to an audience of professors, graduate, and undergraduate students the Monday and Tuesday ...

DNA has unique properties relative to RNA, including its large size and double ... tool within the DNA vaccine toolkit. Using a model DNA-LNP expressing influenza hemagglutinin (HA), the team ...

With a protein large language model, the team was able to cluster ... More information: Guilhem Faure et al, TIGR-Tas: A family of modular RNA-guided DNA-targeting systems in prokaryotes and ...