A team led by scientists at Northwestern University has discovered how paraspeckles, a landmark (condensate) found in the ...

Our cells produce a variety of proteins, each with a specific role that, in many cases, means that they need to be in a ...

Six scientists demonstrate in their laboratory that a sulfur compound could have been key to the appearance of the first ...

Experiment may help explain the ‘most intriguing causal paradox in biology’ about how early life forms came together about 4 ...

The experiments, led by postdoctoral researcher Jyoti Singh with UCL collaborators, have chemically linked activated amino ...

Scientists discovered chemical reactions that place amino acids on tRNAs and extend peptide chains without enzymes, a key ...

The mystery, which has evaded scientists for more than five decades, can be explained with rather simple chemistry, according ...

Chemists at University College London have shown how two of biology's most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising genetic mechanism that influences the vibrant and complex patterns on butterfly wings. The team discovered that an RNA molecule, rather than a protein as ...

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

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

RNA editing doesn’t permanently change a person’s DNA, but rather alters the steps that happen after the RNA molecule “reads” the DNA instructions.