As aging progresses, the quality of DNA and proteins inside cells declines, which is known to be the cause of various ...

The ability to correct disease-causing genetic mistakes using genome editors holds great promise in medicine, but it is not without risk. When this type of "genetic surgery" is performed on DNA, for ...

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...

Researchers at San Diego State University and Michigan State University are shedding new light on how viruses meticulously ...

Using artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have come up with a new way to design nanoparticles that can more efficiently ...

Waltham, Massachusetts–based Skyhawk Therapeutics has been collecting collaborations with larger companies in spades since ...

To our immune system, naked RNA is a sign of a viral or bacterial invasion and must be attacked. But our own cells also have RNA.

A new nanotube-based RNA delivery system boosts plant regeneration by switching off a molecule that blocks shoot growth, without changing the plant's DNA.

The first mRNA vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) was recently created in less than 18 months—but how do mRNA animal ...

A previously unknown virus in farmed Pacific oysters may hold the key to mass die-offs in the multimillion-dollar industry, according to research from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in ...