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

Now, a pair of Scripps Research Institute scientists has taken a significant step toward answering that question. The scientists have synthesized for the first time RNA enzymes that can replicate ...

A newly identified class of RNA molecules has been discovered in bacteria living inside the human body. These circular genetic structures, termed obelisks, differ from known viruses and bacteria and ...

Image showing activity-induced local expression of long noncoding RNA Gas5 in primary cortical neurons, in vitro. Red and blue indicate Gas5 and DAPI, respectively. Synaptic marker, PSD95 is labelled ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Nucleic acids are becoming increasingly popular for assembling nanoscale structures, thanks to their programmable dimensionality and direct applications in the biological field.

Schematic showing the development of a new strategy for RNA delivery and reversible control. This method involves modifying the RNA with the addition of a disulfide bond that prevents it from ...

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

Many writers grouse when an editor makes a change in a story, but the consequences of changing a single word usually aren’t that dire. Not so with genetic instructions for making proteins. Even a ...

Researchers have discovered a new way ribonucleic acid (RNA) impacts fear-related learning and memory. Researchers demonstrated that a noncoding RNA known as Gas5 coordinates the trafficking and ...

Chemists have developed a strategy using disulfide-containing small molecules to facilitate the reversible control and delivery of ribonucleic acid (RNA). A research team has developed a method that ...