A new review sheds light on the complex molecular mechanisms behind Angelman syndrome (AS), a rare neurogenetic disorder, and ...

At a recent gathering, experts in the Swiss biotech and pharma sector underscored the power of international collaboration.

For example, many miRNAs are hosted in the introns, or less frequently the exons, of protein coding genes or long non‐coding RNA genes (Fig 2 and Box 2). The HGNC has curated gene group pages listing ...

Epigenetic changes do not alter the genetic code itself, but by changing how DNA is organized within the cell, epigenetic ...

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered that a novel long noncoding RNA (lncRNA), which are usually 200 nucleotides longer than typical RNAs and are widely expressed in cells ...

The question of how life could have emerged is one of the most long-standing mysteries in science. In a new study, the ...

An international research team, led by Jian-Feng Mao, has developed PlantLncBoost, a new computational tool that helps to ...

A research team from Sun Yat-sen University Sixth Affiliated Hospital has made a groundbreaking discovery in colorectal cancer (CRC) research, identifying a long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) named ...

Not all DNA looks like the familiar twisted ladder. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes. One such ...