Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...

RNA plays a vital role in how our genes are expressed and how diseases develop. Yet, because RNA molecules constantly change ...

In a leap for biomedical science, researchers from the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) and A*STAR Bioinformatics Institute (A*STAR BII), in collaboration with the University of ...

Correcting misinformation after it has gone viral is a common way of informing the public that what they've encountered may ...

In two experiments, researchers have found that introducing people to "mental models" about how mRNA vaccination works and ...

Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time.

Too often in old age, he made unjustified racial remarks in highly offensive ways with immense ‘titanic’ public consequences ...

DNA scaffolds that mirror influenza virus protein geometry boost antiviral binding and reduce infection more effectively than ...

Researchers at Stockholm University recovered intact RNA molecules – the chemical messengers that reveal which genes were active – from a 39,000-year-old male mammoth named Yuka. The breakthrough, ...

Most days you move through the world without thinking about the invisible creatures that surround you. Yet one of them, a ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...