Once thought of primarily as an intermediary between the coding portions of DNA and proteins, our understanding of RNA and its many functions has expanded greatly. While some types of RNA are indeed ...

Researchers have used cryo-EM and computational tools to visualize ribozyme assembly, shedding light on life's most versatile ...

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RNA is a central biological macromolecule, now widely harnessed in medicine and nanotechnology. Like proteins, RNA function ...

Scientists have sequenced RNA from a nearly 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth leg, the oldest ancient RNA ever recovered. These ...

A study captured the first near frame-by-frame view of a self-splicing ribozyme assembling into its active form. Using ...

RNA drugs are the next frontier of medicine, but manufacturing them requires an expensive and labor-intensive process that limits production and produces metric tons of toxic chemical waste.

RNA could be considered DNA’s younger sibling. From the very beginning, RNA’s milestones came later and attracted less attention than DNA’s milestones. For example, the discovery of DNA’s structure ...

RNA is the molecule that reads the genetic information stored in DNA. It's critical for the proper functioning of cells, and in a new study published in Nature Communications, University of California ...

A heart attack does more than block blood flow. Inside your body, it unleashes chaos. Heart cells flood with harmful oxygen ...