Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a double-strand break involves the severing of both strands of the DNA double ...

DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease ...

A new study by researchers at Bar-Ilan University has uncovered that certain ocean viruses—specifically RNA viruses—may ...

Once dismissed as “junk,” a group of RNA molecules has been found to help regrow damaged nerves in mice in new research. The ...

No longer a mere assistant who carries out the commands of DNA, RNA takes the lead in emerging therapeutics.

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code - a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions.

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Get Instant Summarized Text (GIST) A newly discovered mechanism reveals that DNA and RNA epigenetics form a complementary system for precise gene regulation.

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...

This newly found organism doesn’t act like a virus or a cell, and that could change everything we know about biology.

The researchers have discovered that they form a complementary regulation system, in which DNA epigenetics organises the available genes and RNA epigenetics dynamically adjusts their use.

New studies have shown, for instance, that RNAP often remains clamped to the DNA even after the newly finished RNA transcript is released -- why and how was poorly understood.