(Nanowerk News) With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality ...

RNA can fold into more complex configurations than scientists thought, raising questions about how important these 3D ...

There are many molecules with therapeutic potential, but it can be a challenge to deliver them to the right places at the right times. RNA is one such molecule; the sequences for different proteins ...

Scientists at Université de Montréal's Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer have developed a new database that integrates the molecular structure of microRNAs and messenger RNAs to ...

Years of experiments and databases filled with RNA-seq results belie the simple reality that, until fairly recently, it was impossible to analyze RNA directly. The RNA-seq studies performed with ...

In recent decades, significant advances in science and technology have greatly enhanced understanding of the many biological molecules that contribute to life’s complexity. RNA is one such molecule ...

A ribozyme found by accident selectively repairs broken RNA, suggesting early life could have preserved its genetic code ...

How does a cell know when it’s been damaged? A molecular alarm, set off by mutated RNA and colliding ribosomes, signals danger. When the sun shines on your skin, what does it hit? When it causes a ...

Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between organisms widely separated by evolution. For a molecule of RNA, the world is a ...

The Human Genome Project (HGP) ultimately revealed a DNA sequence of 3 billion base pairs known as the human genome, 1 spurring an enormous technological advance in scientific research and the ...