RNA-binding proteins use a dual binding mechanism involving zinc finger (ZnF) domains and intrinsically disordered regions ...

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

It all started in the lab. Two Boston University doctoral students, Joshua McGee and Jack Kirsch, were creating and testing different types of RNA—strands of ribonucleic acid, built from chains ...

A new type of RNA degrading-small molecule with broad potential applications has shown some success against the virus that causes COVID-19.

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

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

Viruses are entities that have to infect other cells in order to replicate. They may have genomes that are made of DNA or RNA. We are still discovering new types of RNA viruses, as shown in two new ...

The ability to correct disease-causing genetic mistakes using genome editors holds great promise in medicine, but it is not ...

Shares of Avidity Biosciences RNA have soared 36% in the past month, all thanks to a report issued by the Financial Times (FT ...

The researchers extracted, sequenced, and analyzed RNA (Ribonucleic acid) from an approximately 130-year-old thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) specimen in the Stockholm Natural History Museum.