In Biology 101, we learn that RNA is a single, ribbon-like strand of base pairs that is copied from our DNA and then read like a recipe to build a protein. But there's more to the story. Some RNA ...

Duke University Medical Center-led research has identified a human-specific DNA enhancer that regulates neural progenitor ...

A research team has developed a new class of compounds that effectively inhibit both wild-type CDK9 and its drug-resistant ...

Mutations to the protein structure would likely be harmful to the cat ... The team used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to confirm specific genetic deletions and performed RNA sequencing on skin ...

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

“RNA nucleotide triplets serve very specific informatic functions in translation in all cells,” says Zachary Adam at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, meaning they are used to convey ...

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

Chemists have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have replicated itself on early Earth -- a key process in the origin of life.