When environmental stress harms DNA, it can set off a cascade of failures linked to heart conditions, neurodegeneration, and ...

A new study led by Stephen D. Nimer, M.D.,director of Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, shows how a key molecule ...

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, ...

New research suggests that DNA sequences historically considered to be "junk" have had an overlooked role in gene expression ...

What made ribose the sugar of choice for life's code? Scientists at Scripps Research may have cracked a major part of this ...

Scientists discovered that ancient viral DNA sequences called MER11, once dismissed as genetic junk, actually act as ...

A new study, led by University of Groningen molecular biologist Danny Incarnato, identifies hundreds of ...

In living organisms today, complex molecules like RNA and DNA are constructed with the help of enzymes. So how did these molecules form before life (and enzymes) existed? Why did some molecules end up ...

Current approaches in bioengineering are synthesized and methods for their implementation are suggested for the induction and modulation of trained immunity in the treatment of human diseases.

A portion of our genome that was once dismissed as being “junk” may actually play an important role in regulating gene ...