Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...
Prostate cancer is the second-most common cancer in men. A new study from Thomas Jefferson University uncovered a new ...
An international team of researchers including scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have developed a way ...
Scientists at IOCB Prague are uncovering new details of gene transcription. They have identified a previously unknown ...
Bacteria contain a wide variety of mechanisms to fend off invaders like viruses. One of these strategies involves cleaving transfer ribonucleic acids (tRNA), which are present in all cells and play a ...
A long-standing question has been how viral RNAs that use genetic codes different from those used in human cells can still drive efficient viral protein production during infection. It emerges that ...
Everything on Earth is made of atoms, most of which are closely packed together in the form of minerals. Life has its uses for minerals—ask a coral reef—but its essence lies in atoms arranged as ...