You may have seen it in the news recently: a baby in Pennsylvania with a rare genetic disorder was healed with a personalized ...

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

Most proteins are left-handed, but scientists have found an ancient molecule that works in both mirror-image forms.

At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how ...

Inspired by the way viruses attach to cells, scientists have developed a method for engineering ultra-selective aptamers.

Resolve Therapeutics, a leader in the emerging field of cell-free nucleic acid therapeutics, today announced a collaboration with the Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine to ...

In a 2014 Nature paper, Ralston described this awkward process — trogocytosis, or “cell nibbling.” It was a revelation at the ...

Scientists at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have re-engineered ...

We have all heard of antibodies – proteins produced by our bodies to bind to viruses or bacteria, marking them for ...