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 ...

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

The two companies brought legal action over a repeated sequence in the messenger RNA (mRNA) used in CureVac's patents in life ...

This isn't the first time RNA has been honored recently. The molecule has been something of a scientific darling of late: ...

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

Doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis increases tetracycline resistance genes in the gut, without significantly affecting ...

MicroRNAs, or miRNAs, are small, non-coding molecules of RNA. They play an important role in determining how much messenger RNA (mRNA), which carries genetic information, eventually gets translated ...

An international team of researchers led by Francesca Finotello from the Digital Science Center (DiSC) and Department of ...

The prize was awarded for the discovery of microRNA and “its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.” MicroRNA plays an ...

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 ...

A new generation of more precise and efficient gene-editing tools is also undergoing trials. CRISPR-Cas9 acts like a pair of ...

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