The human body has always been crowded with microscopic passengers, from bacteria to viruses and fungi. Over the past two ...

Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and ...

Endosomes (green) in human cells. Credit: Biozentrum, University of Basel A recent study involving researchers from the University of Basel reveals that slowing down the intracellular transport of RNA ...

This strange microscopic structure may whisper ancient evolutionary secrets.

It’s no secret that we need new ways to treat and detect disease, including cancer. Specifically, we need better biomarkers that can be used for diagnosis and better ways to selectively get medicine ...

Pancreatic cancer may evade the immune system using a clever molecular trick. Researchers found that the cancer-driving ...

Increasing paternal age has been linked to elevated health risks for the next generation, including higher risks of obesity ...

The technology, called the Viral-Engineered RNA-based Activation System (VERAS), hijacks the virus’s own replication machinery to switch on reporter or therapeutic genes precisely in infected cells.

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai say they have made a new discovery about how human cells make RNA, a molecule that functions as a set of blueprints that tell cells how to ...

The functioning of neurons, cells that transmit information in the nervous system, heavily relies on the production of ...

ORNL scientists created a biosensor technology that lets researchers visualize and track RNA activity in living plants, using a molecular splicing technique and a fluorescent marker protein. *This ...

Pancreatic cancer may evade the immune system not by accident but by actively switching off internal danger signals through ...