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 ...

An international team led by Covadonga Orejas, a researcher at the Gijón Oceanographic Centre of the Spanish Institute of ...

Scientists have discovered how a mitochondrial mutation rewires immune function in a model of inherited primary mitochondrial disorders, which often lead to severe disability and death.

Scientists have made a major breakthrough in understanding how fat cells grow in size, in response to accommodating larger ...

Analysis of 135,000 participants reveals 11 genetic regions tied to delayed gratification and shows shared biology with ...

Whether great minds think alike is up for debate, but the collaborating minds of two people working on a shared task process ...

A new study shows that RNA splicing, not just gene expression, holds powerful clues to why some mammals live far longer than ...

A new study led by Peter Mac Professor Louise Cheng on fruit-fly brains has uncovered how cells that form the brain's ...

Rutgers neuroscientist Peng Jiang was visiting his hometown of Qianshan, a city in China's Anhui province, when a neighbor ...

“This suggests that longer-lived species may have evolved molecular programs that optimize splicing for longevity, allowing ...

This study explains why helpful DNA changes appear often but rarely spread, because environments shift too fast for evolution ...