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

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 ...

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 ...

Early trial data of two virally suppressed, breast-feeding women with HIV shows that there may be less of a risk of HIV ...

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

MicroRNAs control the activity of many key genes but were unknown before 1993.

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

Gary Ruvkun, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, has ...

US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for their discovery of microRNA and its ...