Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But ...

Summary: New research reveals how a tiny chemical mark on RNA helps wire the brain during development. Scientists discovered ...

Researchers have developed a gene therapy that significantly slowed motor function loss in preclinical models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS ...

While it is accepted that extracellular vesicles (EVs)-mediated transfer of microRNAs contributes to intercellular communication, the knowledge about molecular mechanisms controlling the selective and ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

Preclinical study results provide a comprehensive transcriptomic characterization of regenerative wound repair in the oral mucosa.

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

Elizabeth Jonas first got interested in mitochondria by chance. In 1995, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, working ...

Emerging research on lifestyle changes and the development of preventive approaches are revealing an opportunity to measure ...

Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast ...

Importantly, the team found that mutations associated with neurological conditions like autism and schizophrenia can ...

A new tool called PHOTON, developed by scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center, can identify RNA molecules at their ...