Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA) are perhaps the most important molecules in cell biology, responsible for the storage and reading of genetic information that underpins all life.

DNA holds our genetic blueprints, but its cousin, RNA, conducts our daily lives I n 1957, just four years after Francis Crick ...

People are still debating whether the mRNA from COVID-19 vaccines remains in the body longer than it should. Some say it ...

DNA and RNA methylation, initially thought to operate as distinct pathways, have been shown to interact closely, shifting our understanding of gene regulation. A team of researchers from the ...

Many novel designs and drug delivery systems have emerged over the past few years, allowing scientists to envisage the application of medicine based on ribonucleic acid (RNA) in the treatment, ...

More of the ingredients for life have been found in meteorites. Space rocks that fell to Earth within the last century contain the five bases that store information in DNA and RNA, scientists report ...

The new administration has a different perspective of vaccines than the previous administration, causing confusion with the ...

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...

Francesca Storici consults at Tessera Therapeutics. She has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both ...

All five nucleobases that make up DNA and RNA have now been detected in meteorite samples, according to a study published yesterday (April 26) in Nature Communications. The work used recently ...