Quanta Magazine

How Dad’s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA

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

RNA steps outside the cell to help guide immune responses, study suggests

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

Nanotechnology – Introduction to Molecular Programming

Discover the future of computing and nanotechnology this summer. Learn how DNA, RNA, and proteins can be engineered to sense, ...
Labroots

An Introduction and Overview into Lipid Nanoparticle Technology

Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have become the gold standard in non-viral gene delivery technologies, exemplified by the approval ...
eLife

A single-cell transcriptomic atlas reveals resident dendritic-like cells in the zebrafish brain parenchyma

The zebrafish brain combines a conserved heterogeneity of immune cells with a unique dendritic cell-like population.
Technology Networks

Addressing Development Challenges for RNA Therapeutics

This article explores how challenges such as sequence optimization, immune activation and off-target effects are being addressed to enhance the safety, durability and efficacy of RNA therapeutics.
GitHub

tyh-19/Pipeline-for-multiomics

Introduction: This pipeline is designed for SMARTer-seq pico input v2, which utilizing template switch strategy to add adaptor sequence at 5' of RNA fragments. This strategy introduces ~3 GC pairs at ...
Labroots

DELETE = From Transcriptomes to Epigenomes: Introduction to single-cell RNA-seq and single-cell ATAC-seq

Single-cell technology has revolutionized the field of biological research by enabling the analysis of individual cells, providing unprecedented insights into cellular heterogeneity and function. More ...
C&EN

Technologies for Targeted RNA Degradation and Induced RNA Decay

You are free to share (copy and redistribute) this article in any medium or format and to adapt (remix, transform, and build upon) the material for any purpose, even commercially within the parameters ...
Time

What to Know About MicroRNA, the Nobel-Prizewinning Discovery

Two scientists have been award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of microRNA. Victor Ambros, professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Chan ...
eLife

Association with TFIIIC limits MYCN localisation in hubs of active promoters and chromatin accumulation of non-phosphorylated RNA polymerase II

MYC family oncoproteins regulate the expression of a large number of genes and broadly stimulate elongation by RNA polymerase II (RNAPII). While the factors that control the chromatin association of ...
The New York Times

The Long-Overlooked Molecule That Will Define a Generation of Science

Dr. Cech is a biochemist and the author of the forthcoming book “The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets,” from which this essay is adapted. From E=mc² to splitting the atom ...