RNA therapeutics have been around since the late 1990s, but interest in these medicines has skyrocketed since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and the success of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines.

Investigators at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have designed RNA molecules that home to human pancreatic beta cells, the cells that produce insulin and are destroyed in patients ...

Chinese scientists have successfully used RNA to precisely gene-edit mammalian cells – something that could be used to develop safer, more effective and lower-cost gene therapies. RNA, or ribonucleic ...

The natural RNAi mechanism can be directed by either short interfering RNA (siRNA) or microRNA (miRNA). 1 There are four key steps in the RNAi pathway. When miRNA acts as the guide for RNAi, only a ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have successfully used RNA nanodrugs to target and silence a gene that encodes for a protein that causes ovarian cancer to metastasize. This breakthrough achieved by ...

Inside a lab in the French city of Orleans, scientists are testing out the limits of molecules in our body called messenger RNA -- best known for being used in COVID-19 vaccines -- in the hopes of ...

Long before modern humans built cities or carved out farms, woolly mammoths wandered across frozen plains with thick coats ...

In a remarkable scientific breakthrough, NASA has confirmed that samples returned from asteroid Bennu contain all five ...

Researchers at Stockholm University carefully ground up bits of muscle and other tissue from Yuka and nine other woolly ...