Led by Ivan Zheludev and Andrew Fire at Stanford University, a team of scientists analyzed massive metatranscriptomic ...

A human-specific NOVA1 variant changed mouse vocalizations, potentially providing insights into the evolution of language.

Regions of DNA that do not code for proteins may also be considered genes if they produce noncoding RNA with biological functions. Protein-coding versus noncoding genes When deciding the number of ...

Scientists have pinpointed and described unusual subtypes of fat cells that may help scientists explain why gut fat is linked ...

Researchers from SRM Institute of Science and Technology, led by Dr. KN Aruljothi, have published a study in ExRNA ...

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 of the natural ...

Additionally, they note connections between TIGR-Tas systems and certain RNA-processing proteins in human cells. "I think there's more there to study in terms of what some of those relationships ...

Alternative RNA splicing is like a movie editor cutting and rearranging scenes from the same footage to create different versions of a film.

which appears to influence the expression of about half of all human genes, is found throughout the animal kingdom, as well as in plants. The findings suggest that the control of RNA splicing ...

RNA sequencing has emerged as a powerful supplement to DNA sequencing for Mendelian disease diagnosis, but clinical ...

A personalised vaccine for the aggressive and fatal brain cancer glioblastoma has shown encouraging signs of efficacy in its first human trial ... The team’s RNA-LNP approach – described ...

Researchers at Purdue University have developed a computational solution to this problem named NuFold, which will model 3D RNA structures that could expedite medical discovery decades ahead of ...