The enzyme RNA polymerase (RNAP) carries out transcription, copying DNA into RNA. It's the first step in gene expression, and a process fundamental to all life. But the inner workings of this ...

Just as the human body relies on organs such as the heart or liver for essential functions, cells depend on their own tiny ...

RNA technology is regarded as one of the newest frontiers in medicine, but in fact a primordial innovator got there way ...

For decades, circular RNA was treated as little more than molecular background noise — stable fragments that accumulated in ...

An unexpected discovery about what made a tiny worm refuse to grow up has now led to the 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. Victor Ambros, now at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical ...

RNA rewards companies that can integrate biology, data science, manufacturing, and clinical development into a single ...

Researchers have uncovered a previously hidden layer of complexity in how genes are activated, showing that water molecules ...

AIRNA, a biotech company pioneering RNA-editing therapeutics to transform the lives of patients with rare and common ...

Myocarditis is recognized as a rare but serious adverse reaction to messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccination against COVID-19.

Two University of Chicago scholars have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, joining other scientists and researchers chosen in “recognition of their distinguished and continuing ...