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

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 ...

A University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) study, published in Nature Communications, uncovers how enteroviruses—including those causing polio, myocarditis, encephalitis, and the common ...

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 ...

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

Discover how a tiny RNA molecule serves as a molecular switch in viral infections, providing insights into phage biology.

(Nanowerk News) Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But a critical aspect underlying the machinery of protein ...

A breakthrough experiment, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offers compelling support for ...