He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

Look inside a brain cell with Huntington's disease or ALS and you are likely to find RNA clumped together. These solid-like clusters, thought to be irreversible, can act as sponges that soak up ...

Scientists have created an artificial RNA system that can copy itself using simple building blocks and temperature changes.

By using a genetic technique developed at UT Southwestern Medical Center that forces cells to rid themselves of mitochondria, researchers are gaining new insights into the function of these critical ...

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...