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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

CRISPR is a revolutionary tool that allows scientists to precisely modify the genome and gene expression of cells in any ...