The discovery of a juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka, found in Siberian permafrost with its skin and muscles intact, has ...

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...

Industrialized, small batch, and individual RNA therapeutics become practical with “in-a-box” manufacturing technology.

Beyond Alzheimer's disease, the findings illuminate fundamental mechanisms of RNA metabolism regulation in neurons. The ...

Whole-genome sequencing reads every DNA base. This shifts medicine from diagnosing disease based on symptoms to molecular ...

It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm University, first laid eyes upon a special specimen on a lab table in eastern Siberia. "Our Russian collaborators said, 'Come here into this ...

How the brain gets wired up matters. Consider the neurons involved in the sense of smell. Hook them up wrong, and suddenly ...

If you live in the United States, odds are high that a tiny passenger rides in your blood. By adulthood, more than 94 percent of people carry Epstein-Barr virus, or EBV, a germ that often spreads ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ancestry, according to a study published in Nature Communications.

The two neurodegenerative diseases could not appear more different. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), sometimes called Lou ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionising how scientists study cancer and Type 1 diabetes and discover ways to fight them.