New findings show how thioesters could have been built, an important step to providing the energy needed for protein ...

More than four billion years ago, Earth was a very different place. Pools of water froze and thawed in cycles, minerals ...

In a new study, scientists at The Wistar Institute report the first direct evidence that RNA editing is essential to mammalian embryo development. RNA editing is a normal but not yet fully understood ...

When the first spark of life emerged on a young, ocean-covered Earth some four billion years ago, it didn’t happen at once.

Bodybuilders and cellular mechanisms agree generating protein is a heavy lift. To complete the task, cells rely on complexes called spliceosomes. These molecular machines snip extra bits out of our ...

The recognition of mRNA molecules as a transformative class of therapeutic drugs has soared, particularly with the development of COVID 19 mRNA vaccines. The cancer treatment landscape is similarly ...

Hosted by the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, the event is held on a near-annual basis to ...

Essentially all cells in an organism's body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are ...

The integrated service aims to streamline the journey of mRNA drug products from conception to clinical trials.

The thylacine, more commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger, was declared extinct over eight decades ago. However, recent ...