No longer a mere assistant who carries out the commands of DNA, RNA takes the lead in emerging therapeutics.

In April of that year, patients started appearing at hospitals in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk, now known as ...

While it is accepted that extracellular vesicles (EVs)-mediated transfer of microRNAs contributes to intercellular communication, the knowledge about molecular mechanisms controlling the selective and ...

Synthetic data delivers clean, scalable and customizable datasets that can augment—or even replace—traditional data in key ...

In this interview, Professor James J. Collins, founder of the field of Synthetic Biology, discusses his journey to founding ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

The authors proposed two hypotheses: first, that methamphetamine induces neuroinflammation, and second, that it alters neuronal stem cell differentiation. These are valuable hypotheses, and the ...

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

Gene expression, where cells use the genetic information encoded in DNA to produce proteins, has been thought of as a dimmer light.

Synthetic gene circuits: Insulin self-regulation A self-adjusting synthetic gene circuit senses and reverses insulin resistance in animal models of diabetes and obesity.