RNA-based medicines are one of the most promising ways to fight human disease, as demonstrated by the recent successes of RNA ...

New research challenges previous assumptions about RNA transport, finding that RNA can carry instructions across generations.

Most major biological molecules, including all proteins, DNA and RNA, point in one direction or another. In other words, they ...

There are many molecules with therapeutic potential, but it can be a challenge to deliver them to the right places at the ...

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UMD researchers have discovered key mechanisms in gene regulation that could improve the design of RNA-based medicines.

They say that change takes time. Well, that's not the case for RNA. The small biological molecule acts like a switchboard ...

Protein synthesis is vital for life, translating genetic information from DNA to functional proteins through transcription ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...