RNA-binding proteins use a dual binding mechanism involving zinc finger (ZnF) domains and intrinsically disordered regions ...

When cells are stressed by heat, toxins, inflammation, or other challenges, most cellular processes, including protein production, are temporarily shut down to help the cell survive. Ribosomes ...

The ability to correct disease-causing genetic mistakes using genome editors holds great promise in medicine, but it is not ...

How did the building blocks of life come together to spawn the first organisms? Scientists just got a major clue. In a new study published in the journal Nature, a team of biologists say they've ...

Chemists at UCL (University College London) have shown how two of biology’s most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin ...

Harnessing the power of mRNA, a naturally occurring molecule that tells the body how to make a protein, experts in the field ...