With AI, it's now possible for researchers to predict the three-dimensional structures of proteins directly from their ...

Researchers have discovered molecules that present the potential to drive the development of gastric cancer. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have discovered molecules that present the ...

The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets. Thomas Cech. W.W. Norton; 304 pages; $28.99 and £23.99 All this is the subject of Thomas Cech’s new book, “The Catalyst”. The author ...

A team at UT Southwestern Medical Center has identified a structural trick that lets viruses translate their genetic code inside human cells, even when that code is riddled with “bad” codons the host ...

Researchers have visualized how a large RNA molecule assembles itself into a functional machine. RNA is a central biological macromolecule, now widely harnessed in medicine and nanotechnology. Like ...

Cells rely on tiny molecules called microRNAs to tune which genes are active and when. Cells must carefully control the ...

There are plenty of unanswered questions about the origin of life on Earth. But the research community has largely reached consensus that one of the key steps was the emergence of an RNA molecule that ...

Guoping Li, PhD, of the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the lead author and Saumya Das, MD, PhD, of the Cardiovascular Research Center at ...

Researchers have designed a smart drug that hunts down and breaks a little-known RNA that cancer cells depend on. The drug recognizes a unique fold in the RNA and triggers the cell to destroy it.

According to the RNA world hypothesis, life began when RNA molecules evolved the ability to make more copies of themselves. Now we have discovered an RNA molecule that is almost capable of this – it ...