Scientists are exploring how RNA might have jump-started life four billion years ago and how it's now advancing drug ...

Scientists are exploring how RNA might have jump-started life four billion years ago and how it's now advancing drug ...

Alternative splicing, a clever way a cell generates many different variations of messenger RNAs - single-stranded RNAs involved in protein synthesis - and proteins from the same stretch of DNA, plays ...

Avak Kahvejian, PhD, a general partner with biotech incubator Flagship Pioneering, discusses how AI is rearchitecting methods ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes trying to invade our ...

The quest for a vaccine against HIV has been going on for about 40 years — almost as long as the virus that causes AIDS has been known to scientists and the public. There has been some progress ...

Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a powerful new technology that can map the entire ...

Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts think they might even survive right up until the Sun dies.