For a long time, scientists depended on luck to find new proteins. In 1840, for example, the Friedrich Ludwig Hünefeld, a ...

Not all DNA looks like the familiar twisted ladder. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes. One such ...

Researchers at Northwestern University found that DNA strand separation may require more force than previously thought when ...

In “Let-7a-regulated translational readthrough of mammalian AGO1 generates a microRNA pathway inhibitor” by Singh et al, 2019, and “Transcript-specific induction of stop codon readthrough using a ...

Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are stable, ring-shaped molecules that play crucial roles in brain development, cognition, and long-term cellular regulation.

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological ...

Reading the excellent article titled ‘Tackling insidious killer’ (The Island 2025/06/04) by Priyantha Hewage, a few questions ...

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to ...

A newly published and widely acclaimed book ‘The Apostles of Development- Six Economists and the World They Made,’ by Yale ...

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

The team discovered that in comparison with young neurons, old neurons displayed hallmarks of molecular stress, such as ...

Scientists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have recreated how RNA might have first replicated itself on ...