The intestinal microbiome is a highly complex ecosystem with thousands of different types of bacteria. Live and let live, ...

Researchers hope to plan clinical trials of 5-fluorouracil with drugs that would enhance its RNA-damaging effects and kill ...

Live Science spoke with Nobel laureate Dr. Drew Weissman and engineer Daeyeon Lee about a new RNA research center they're ...

Doctors have long believed the cancer drug 5-fluorouracil works by damaging the building blocks of DNA, but researchers have now found that in certain cancers, it kills cells by interfering with RNA ...

RNA plays an increasingly significant role in human gene expression. Within each cell, inside every nucleus, your survival ...

Scientists have now discovered why a genetic mutation in a gene called TET2 is often implicated in disorders including ...

It turns out that TET2 has considerable influence over an RNA process called methylation, which affects how DNA gets packaged ...

In the late 1980s, Ambros and Ruvkun were postdoctoral researchers in the laboratory of Robert Horvitz, who received the ...

This research is being done at the university level, led by Olgica Milenkovic, a professor at the University of Illinois ...

Epigenetics, the study of changes in gene function that do not involve alterations to the DNA sequence, plays a pivotal role ...

Genome instability can cause numerous diseases. Cells have effective DNA repair mechanisms at their disposal. A research team ...

Study reveals the drug, 5-fluorouracil, acts differently in different types of cancer — a finding that could help researchers design better drug combinations.