Scientists extracted RNA from a 130-year-old specimen, uncovering which genes were active before the animal went extinct.

Rapid advances in sequencing technologies have transformed our ability to diagnose human genetic disorders, yet many patients still lack a molecular ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

A newly identified class of RNA molecules has been discovered in bacteria living inside the human body. These circular ...

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

A fatty diet doesn’t just damage the liver — it rewires its cells in ways that give cancer a dangerous head start.

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

New method ASPEN accurately maps gene activity from each parent in individual cells, overcoming noise in data. It revealed ...

A new study in Engineering reveals how macrophage-released U2AF1 aids heart repair after heart attack by steering Yap1 splicing toward the ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich recently explained the role of a molecular complex that orchestrates the production of proteins in ...

An innovative three-color method for capturing images of mRNA inside live mammalian cells has been developed by UMass Amherst chemists. Because RNA is both incredibly important to human life and ...

Researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil have discovered that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes ...