Protein synthesis is vital for life, translating genetic information from DNA to functional proteins through transcription ...

In human cells, only a small proportion of the information written in genes is used to produce proteins. How does the cell ...

Yale researchers have created "Ochre," a genomically recoded organism that enables the production of synthetic proteins with ...

RNA-based medicines are one of the most promising ways to fight human disease, as demonstrated by the recent successes of RNA ...

There are many molecules with therapeutic potential, but it can be a challenge to deliver them to the right places at the ...

How does tidy storage lead to better medicine? Epigenetics is becoming an ever more important field of research, focusing not ...

The research is published today (Feb. 11, 2025) in Molecular Cell. Transfer RNA (tRNA) works with messenger RNA (mRNA) to construct proteins by way of complementarity, meaning that a tRNA sequence ...

UMD researchers have discovered key mechanisms in gene regulation that could improve the design of RNA-based medicines.

Many studies have used single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to infer gene regulatory networks (GRNs), which are crucial for ...

When Xiao Wang applied to faculty jobs, many of the institutions where she interviewed thought her research proposal - to ...