Proteins that trigger cell senescence occupy much of the literature on aging, but a small RNA moves into the limelight.

An experimental therapy designed to change a single letter of short-lived mRNA molecules has corrected a genetic mutation ...

Scientists have identified the likely geological and environmental conditions that fostered the development of life as we ...

Gary Ruvkun, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, has ...

B efore the committee that awards the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine made its announcement on October 7th, the ...

arise from RNA that comes from outside the cell.” Worms with a mutation in lin-4 repeated certain steps in larval development and failed to make some adult parts, Ambros said October 7 in a news ...

The prize was awarded for the discovery of microRNA and “its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.” MicroRNA plays an ...

In a new study, the drug RK-33 has demonstrated promise in treating breast cancer that has spread to the bone (breast cancer ...

In a new book, astrophysicist Mario Livio describes how the existence of life on Earth can be traced back to an RNA-based ...

Isabel Jiang ’28 created an experiment that will be performed aboard the International Space Station later this week.

Early trial data of two virally suppressed, breast-feeding women with HIV shows that there may be less of a risk of HIV ...

RNA is best known for carrying instructions for how to make proteins from DNA in the nucleus of the cell to tiny cellular factories that actually build the proteins. MicroRNA does not make ...