Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a disease that destroys the nerves necessary for movement. About 30,000 people in the ...

Oregon Health & Science University, in collaboration with Oregon State University, has discovered the structural organization ...

Historically, small molecule drugs have been precisely designed down to the atomic scale. Considering their relatively large complex structures, nanomedicines have lagged behind. Researchers argue ...

Historically, the vast majority of pharmaceutical drugs have been meticulously designed down to the atomic level. The ...

RNA-based technologies are a powerful molecular biology toolbox, empowering scientists to decipher the complexities of living ...

The RNA cloud formed around genes regulates their readout into RNA. Triplexes help define where in the genome a cloud forms. Proteins and other fl ...

Among the major classes of RNAs in the cell, tRNAs remain the most difficult to characterize via deep sequencing approaches, as tRNA structure and nucleotide modifications can each interfere with cDNA ...

A team of scientists led by the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore (A*STAR GIS) have released one of the world's largest ...

Discover how a structural breakthrough in the chikungunya virus is opening new avenues for antiviral drug development and ...

DNA strand displacement circuits are inching closer to becoming cellular machines. Scientists are finding ways to make these ...

Messenger RNA, or mRNA, is a molecule containing instructions or recipes that direct cells to make a protein using natural machinery (2). A type of single-stranded RNA (ssRNA), mRNA has various ...