Researchers at San Diego State University and Michigan State University are shedding new light on how viruses meticulously pack their genetic material — a breakthrough that could help researchers ...

A new nanotube-based RNA delivery system boosts plant regeneration by switching off a molecule that blocks shoot growth, ...

Many researchers suspect that protocells contained only RNA, a single-stranded version of DNA. Both RNA and DNA store genetic information in their long sequences of molecular “letters.” ...

In a diagnostic PCR test, the machine can detect the presence of a pathogen after replicating the genetic material. However, certain viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, consist of RNA rather than DNA.

During DNA replication, the complementary base pairing ensures faithful copying of the genetic material. In RNA, cytosine also pairs with guanine. However, RNA is typically single-stranded and serves ...

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

Researchers discovered a previously unknown function of RNA, potentially opening the door to new ways to treat cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

The DNA double helix (shown on the left) can contort itself into different shapes to absorb chemical damage to the basic building blocks (A, G, C and T, depicted by a black dot) of genetic code ...

Genes are transcribed into another form of genetic material called RNA that cells use to make proteins. Normally, genes are processed before transcription in order to make a readable strand of RNA.

Paul Sutter explores the origins of life, and DNA versus RNA This month's "Edge of Knowledge" peers back in time to the beginnings of life on Earth.

But how the virus selects and packages its native RNA inside the crowded environment of a host cell cytoplasm in the presence of many nonviral RNA and other polymers has remained a mystery.