A research team describes how they engineered an efficient new enzyme that can produce a synthetic genetic material called threose nucleic acid. The ability to synthesize artificial chains of TNA, ...

Three scientists are taking home one of the largest and most distinguished prizes in medicine in the United States.

Discoveries in genetics and artificial intelligence underpin the Nobel Prize winners to be presented in Stockholm in December ...

For many people, RNA entered the consciousness during the race to develop a COVID vaccine. on Tuesday, three researchers who ...

Pancreatic cells like human cells have a limit to how much stress they can handle before they start to break down Through overstimulation of these cells cer ...

Some Nobel Prize winners use the award proceeds to fund research or support others in their field, while others put the money towards houses, boats and even croquet lawns.

A new study has identified an RNA molecule that is important for skin wound healing. The research may have implications for the treatment of hard-to-heal wounds.

Groundbreaking new work has found the fate of a gene being transcribed depends on the relative location of the transcription ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences has identified an RNA molecule that is ...

This valuable report describes the changing antiviral activity of IFIT1 across mammals and in response to distinct viruses, likely as a result of past arms races. One of the main strengths of the ...

The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros ( University of Massachusetts Medical School) and Gary Ruvkun ( Harvard Medical School [HMS], both MA, USA) for their ...

City Therapeutics, based in Cambridge, is developing new medicines that use RNA interference, or RNAi, to silence genes and ...