RNA has emerged as one of the most promising molecules in modern medicine, enabling advances from mRNA vaccines and gene ...

Accurate RNA splicing is essential for gene expression and human health, yet predicting how DNA sequence variations affect ...

A new Northwestern Medicine study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has explored the impacts ...

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint for these cells is essentially the same. Where do those differences come ...

Our genes contain all the instructions our body needs to function, but their expression must be finely regulated to guarantee that each cell performs its role optimally. This is where DNA and RNA ...

In the study of bacteria, a longstanding dogma has held that two molecular machines—RNA polymerase, which leads the way in ...

Oceans churned with lava. Air filled thick with smoke. Asteroids stormed down incessantly. Life during the Hadean Eon four billion years ago was a struggle, and yet that was when it began. 1,2 With no ...

Researchers from the University of Osaka uncover a novel mechanism linking mitochondrial hyperfusion to innate immunity ...