After two decades in the making, scientists have cracked the code on a drug that can repair DNA, setting the scene for a new ...

New Houston Methodist research has revealed that a protein associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) also plays a role in regulating DNA ...

New research published in Nature Communications has linked a normal cellular process to an accumulation of DNA mutations in ...

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

RNA, widely known from the COVID-19 vaccine, is not actually a "therapeutic agent," but a technology that delivers the blueprint for functional proteins in the body and induces therapeutic effects.

Fusion oncoproteins arise when a gene fuses with another gene and acquires new abilities. Such abilities can include the ...

02 February 2023, Hesse, Marburg: A press spokeswoman points to a plasmid model at the Görzhausen I Biontech site. Photo: Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa (Photo by Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/picture ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...