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 ...

Scientists have finally uncovered the missing link in how our bodies absorb queuosine, a rare micronutrient crucial for brain health, memory, stress response, and cancer defense. For decades, ...

Alltrna, the preclinical Flagship Pioneering-backed biotech trying to turn transfer RNA (tRNA) into drugs, is slimming down as it works toward the clinic. | Alltrna, the preclinical Flagship ...

Queuosine, supplied from food and our own gut bacteria, plays a vital role in human health. Researchers have just discovered ...

From Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Charlotte J. Sumner, M.D., presents an editorial on a study by Richard S.

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

At that point, a dedicated helper molecule called a release factor enters the ribosome and triggers the release of the finished protein from the carrier molecule holding it, called transfer RNA ...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) represents a major global health issue, ranking as the third most common tumour and the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide.1 Distant metastasis is the ...

An international team of scientists, co-led by researchers at the University of Florida and Trinity College Dublin, has cracked a decades-old mystery ...

Similar to the way the caps on the ends of a shoelace prevent it from fraying, telomeres—regions of repetitive DNA sequences ...