In human cells, only a small proportion of the information written in genes is used to produce proteins. How does the cell ...

RNA-based medicines are one of the most promising ways to fight human disease, as demonstrated by the recent successes of RNA ...

There are many molecules with therapeutic potential, but it can be a challenge to deliver them to the right places at the ...

UMD researchers have discovered key mechanisms in gene regulation that could improve the design of RNA-based medicines.

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism — a novel genomically recoded organism ...

Akribion Therapeutics emerges from stealth with €8 million in seed funding to develop a novel cancer RNA-guided approach ...

When Xiao Wang applied to faculty jobs, many of the institutions where she interviewed thought her research proposal - to ...

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed into mRNA precursors, is correctly assembled into mature mRNA. Splicing is a ...

If we can learn how this protein controls RNA transfer between cells, we could potentially develop ... 1 that helps regulate 'jumping genes' -- DNA sequences that tend to move or copy themselves ...

Scientists uncover how the nucleolus, a tiny structure within cells, may control aging and lifespan, opening new ...