A University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) study, published in Nature Communications, uncovers how ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

RNA is usually portrayed as a molecule that works deep inside the cell, helping to turn genetic information into proteins.

A Northwestern Medicine study has shed light on a critical molecular mechanism underlying amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai say they have made a new discovery about how human cells make RNA, a molecule that functions as a set of blueprints that tell cells how to ...

Sean Ryder, professor at UMass Chan Medical School, has written a book to delve the mysteries of ribonucleic acid as a tool to fight diseases. Messenger ribonucleic acid, or mRNA, is in the public ...

A newly revealed molecular tug-of-war may have implications for better understanding how a multitude of diseases and ...

(Nanowerk News) Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But a critical aspect underlying the machinery of protein ...

Researchers are edging closer to something long imagined but never quite within reach: a single vaccine platform that could be adapted to fight many kinds of cancer. Early experiments in animals and ...

Discover how a tiny RNA molecule serves as a molecular switch in viral infections, providing insights into phage biology.