Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

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

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

RNA does more than previously thought: it also operates on the outside of cells. Research by biochemist Jack Li shows that this may be important for how the immune system responds to disease.

UMass Amherst chemists have developed a three-color fluorescent method to visualize different mRNA molecules inside living ...

Discover how a tiny RNA molecule serves as a molecular switch in viral infections, providing insights into phage biology.

Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

An innovative three-color method for capturing images of mRNA inside live mammalian cells has been developed by UMass Amherst chemists. Because RNA is both incredibly important to human life and ...

Researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil have discovered that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes ...

An innovative three-color method for capturing images of mRNA inside live mammalian cells has been developed by UMass Amherst chemists.

As antibiotic-resistant infections rise and are projected to cause up to 10 million deaths per year by 2050, scientists are looking to bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, as an alternative.

The Kepler-22b reveal flips the storyline of the series. What started as a story about Earth going through a bizarre ...