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 ...

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.

While studying Parkinson's disease, an international research group made a discovery which can improve industrial protein synthesis for therapeutic use. They managed to understand a novel function of ...

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 ...

RNA is a central biological macromolecule, now widely harnessed in medicine and nanotechnology. Like proteins, RNA function ...

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

F. William Studier of Brookhaven National Laboratory has won the second annual Richard N. Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology for his development of an efficient, scalable method of producing RNA ...

Some 39,000 years ago, a woolly mammoth died in present-day Siberia, destined to be blanketed by ice and permafrost that would end up preserving its body — even down to the hair and muscle.

Primerdesign releases RapidBead Pro, a fast magnetic bead kit delivering high-quality DNA/RNA extraction across diverse ...