A Completely New Way To Kill Cancer: Artificial DNA
Hairpin-shaped DNA interacts with microRNA in cancer cells, activating an immune response. University of Tokyo researchers have made a breakthrough in the fight against cancer…
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A Key to Cancer Research: The Origin-of-Life Molecule
Researchers from Spain and Denmark have discovered a technique for attacking cancer cells in the production of one of the origin-of-life molecules. The molecule that…
New Research Reveals That COVID Virus Alters RNA in Infected Cells
A new study describes how the functioning of RNA changes in cells infected by SARS-CoV-2, the COVID-19 virus. The findings provide clues as to how…
Researchers Have Discovered a Mutation That Significantly Increases Lifespan
The study found that faulty RNA processing can result in longer life. RNA is an important information transmitter in our cells and acts as a…
New RNA Tool Can Illuminate Brain Circuits and Edit Specific Cells
Editing technology is precise and broadly applicable to all tissues and species. Scientists at Duke University have developed an RNA-based editing tool that targets individual…
Turning Cancer Cells Into Normal Cells
A mechanism is discovered that explains how cancer cells transform into normal, harmless ones. A recent study explains how changing the chemical modifications, or so-called epigenetics,…
Scientists Decode How a Protein on the Move Keeps Cells Healthy
Scientists are working to better understand the RNA interference process, which could help improve treatments, such as cancer therapies. Recently, researchers discovered how the Argonaute…
The Origin of Life on Earth: A Paradigm Shift
According to a new theory by LMU chemists led by Thomas Carell, it was a novel molecular species composed of RNA and peptides that set…
Nanotechnology Enables 3D Visualization of Crucial RNA Structures at Near-Atomic Resolution
Combination of nucleic acid nanotechnology and cryo-EM gives unprecedented insights into the structures of large and small RNAs, advancing RNA biology and drug design. We…
New Discovery Shows the Blueprint for Life May Have Been Generated in Asteroids
Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to be discovered…
5,500 New RNA Virus Species Discovered in the Ocean – Tracing the Origins of Viruses and the Origins of Life
Ocean Water Samples Yield Treasure Trove of RNA Virus Data Ocean water samples collected around the world have yielded a treasure trove of new data…
New Insight Into Possible Origins of Life: For the First Time Researchers Create an RNA Molecule That Replicates
Experiment sheds light on the molecular evolution of RNA. Researchers at the University of Tokyo have for the first time been able to create an…
Uncovering the Purpose of Mysterious mRNA Modifications
A team led by scientists at the University of Birmingham has come a step closer to uncovering the purpose of a distinctive set of modifications…
RNA Molecules Control Repair of Damaged Human DNA in Cancer Cells
A new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows how certain RNA molecules control the repair of damaged DNA in cancer cells, a discovery that…
Silencing Tool Suppresses Gene Activity Across Generations
A gene-silencing tool could enable new opportunities for advancing basic biomedical research and drug development. The technique draws on the power of small noncoding RNA…
New Way To Administer Vaccines: A Pill That Injects RNA in the Stomach
Making RNA Vaccines Easier To Swallow A pill that releases RNA in the stomach could offer a new way to administer vaccines, or to deliver…
Research Team Finds New Species of Coronaviruses in Some Unexpected Places
A former UBC post-doctoral research fellow led an international research team in re-analyzing all public RNA sequencing data to uncover almost ten times more RNA…
RNA Discovery May Lead to Better Diagnosis and Treatment of Liver Cancer
In a new study, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified the presence of a specific connection between a protein and an lncRNA molecule in liver…
