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

Study provides genome-wide insights into human islet stress responses and context-specific type 2 diabetes variant effects.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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