SMRTS, a smart mRNA system, enables cell‑selective gene expression, expanding the mRNA toolbox for precision cancer therapies.

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

The human genome contains approximately 1,600 types of transcription factors responsible for regulating gene activity across ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone ...

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

Tuberculosis is both curable and preventable, yet each year, it still kills more people than any other infectious disease.

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...

Scientists found that messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules that carry genetic instructions to the far reaches of neurons in the brain tend to cluster together mostly because they are abundant, not because ...

A team of researchers led by University of California, Riverside biomedical scientists has identified a small, previously ...