The transition from simple chemistry to the complex biology of molecules that gave rise to life is a puzzle that scientists ...

RNA-based medicines are transforming the way we treat disease—offering targeted, precision therapies for conditions ranging ...

A new paper published in Nature Biotechnology this week titled, “Template-independent enzymatic synthesis of RNA oligonucleotides,” provides details of a method for synthesizing single-stranded RNA ...

While the COVID-19 vaccines introduced many people to RNA-based medicines, RNA oligonucleotides have already been on the market for years to treat diseases like Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and ...

RNA is usually portrayed as a molecule that works deep inside the cell, helping to turn genetic information into proteins.

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have trapped the ribosome, a protein-building molecular machine essential to all life, in a key transitional state that has long eluded ...