The quest for a vaccine against HIV has been going on for about 40 years — almost as long as the virus that causes AIDS has ...

The ability to correct disease-causing genetic mistakes using genome editors holds great promise in medicine, but it is not without risk. When this type of "genetic surgery" is performed on DNA, for ...

Don't kill the messenger RNA! First mRNA stabilizing substance could open new ways in the development of innovative mRNA therapeutics Date: October 16, 2024 Source: Max Planck Institute of ...

Messenger RNA, or mRNA, is used in the two most common COVID-19 vaccines licensed in the United States. Kennedy’s announcement has raised questions about these vaccines, how mRNA works and what ...

DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

By analyzing millions of messenger RNA molecules (mRNA) during the course of ALS, researchers at Stockholm University, in ...

Then a cellular factory called a ribosome grabs the messenger RNA and uses it to assemble the protein from building blocks. The search sped up even faster when scientists began sequencing entire ...