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 ...

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

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 ...

DNA–protein cross-links (DPCs) represent a severe form of DNA damage that can disrupt essential chromatin-based processes. Among them, DNA–histone ...

The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in the last 125,000 years, and temperatures continue to rise. Due to these warming temperatures more than ...

Polar bears are expected to become extinct but there are some signs their DNA is changing and they are adapting to new ...