In a new study, scientists at The Wistar Institute report the first direct evidence that RNA editing is essential to mammalian embryo development. RNA editing is a normal but not yet fully understood ...

New findings show how thioesters could have been built, an important step to providing the energy needed for protein ...

More than four billion years ago, Earth was a very different place. Pools of water froze and thawed in cycles, minerals ...

Alcohol damages the liver by disrupting RNA splicing, leaving cells stuck between functional and regenerative states.

Bodybuilders and cellular mechanisms agree generating protein is a heavy lift. To complete the task, cells rely on complexes called spliceosomes. These molecular machines snip extra bits out of our ...

To solve a problem, we have to see it clearly. Whether it's an infection by a novel virus or memory-stealing plaques forming ...

The recognition of mRNA molecules as a transformative class of therapeutic drugs has soared, particularly with the development of COVID 19 mRNA vaccines. The cancer treatment landscape is similarly ...

The field of RNA bioinformatics is undergoing a transformative era marked by substantial advancements in sequencing technologies and data acquisition ...

Researchers at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at Heidelberg University Hospital have decoded a previously ...

Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have cracked open the secrets of plant stem cells, mapping key genetic regulators ...