Scripps scientists show that ribose may have been nature’s preferred sugar for building RNA, offering new insight into how life’s molecular foundations may have formed before biology began. Today, ...

Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines hold promise for creating new and improved immunizations; however, their delivery is challenging in terms of compliance, reactogenicity, cost and scalability.

miRNAs articles from across Nature Portfolio micro RNAs (miRNAs) are a type of non-coding RNA (ncRNA), ~21 24 nucleotides in length, that function in the post-transcriptional regulation of gene ...