Researchers identify a shared RNA-protein interaction that could lead to broad-spectrum antiviral treatments for ...

Innovative research into the gene-editing tool targets influenza’s ability to replicate—stopping it in its tracks.

A novel CRISPR defense mechanism, unlike known nucleases, specifically destroys transfer ribonucleic acids (tRNA) that are ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai say they have made a new discovery about how human cells make RNA, a molecule that functions as a set of blueprints that tell cells how to ...

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 ...

New research provides a mechanistic map of how genetic mutations disrupt RNA splicing in acute myeloid leukemia.

Japanese scientists have discovered a process by which RNA could have readily formed from a prebiotic environment on ancient ...