A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest ...

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

Over the last few years, scientists and entrepreneurs have flocked to developing medicines that target RNA, the genetic ...

Thousands of previously “invisible” microproteins—tiny chains of fewer than 100 amino acids—can profoundly change human ...

A University of Massachusetts Amherst researcher has received a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

As aging progresses, the quality of DNA and proteins inside cells declines, known to be the cause of various degenerative ...

Ares’s lab is also looking at RNA splicing in other organisms, including humans. For example, graduate student Valerie Welch has developed a set of microarrays to analyze changes in splicing as human ...

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 ...

Indian American researcher to study how cells “silence” transposons, genetic elements that can disrupt the function of genes ...

Researchers at San Diego State University and Michigan State University are shedding new light on how viruses meticulously ...