Researchers are edging closer to something long imagined but never quite within reach: a single vaccine platform that could ...

Sean Ryder, professor at UMass Chan Medical School, has written a book to delve the mysteries of ribonucleic acid as a tool to fight diseases. Messenger ribonucleic acid, or mRNA, is in the public ...

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

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.

Instead of finding treatments for one rare disease, two University at Albany researchers have developed a compound that could ...

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.

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 ...

A study by the Federal University of São Paulo describes how SARS-CoV-2 interacts with the RNA of infected lung cells in an unprecedented way. The results may guide the search for new treatments and ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...