This article explores how challenges such as sequence optimization, immune activation and off-target effects are being ...

tRNAs have a distinct cloverleaf secondary structure and an L-shaped tertiary structure. The cloverleaf structure is formed by the folding of the single-stranded tRNA molecule, which is typically ...

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...

A team of researchers has identified a mechanism that causes mitochondrial dysfunction in Alzheimer's patients resulting in a reduction of the supply of energy to the brain. A team of researchers at ...

Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...

A research team at the Institute of Molecular Biophysics and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State ...

New Houston Methodist research has revealed that a protein associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia and ...

New research published in Nature Communications has linked a normal cellular process to an accumulation of DNA mutations in ...