RNA is a central biological macromolecule, now widely harnessed in medicine and nanotechnology. Like proteins, RNA function ...

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

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

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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 ...

Ancient viral fossils buried in our DNA are offering fresh clues about how today’s respiratory pathogens infect and spread.