Could yeast and humans be any more different? Going by looks alone, probably not. But peering into our genomes reveals ...

The 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research has been awarded to professor Steven ...

Cells contain a blueprint in the form of DNA that dictates what they can make. This blueprint is converted into a message ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai say they have made a new discovery about how human cells make RNA, a molecule that functions as a set of blueprints that tell cells how to ...

Jonathan Henninger, an assistant professor of biological sciences, is part of a growing movement in the life sciences exploring how ribonucleic acid, known as RNA, can be harnessed to develop ...

A study reveals how RNA modifications regulate the transformation of stem cells into retinal cells. The protein METTL3, which ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how a specific transcription factor promotes genetic reprogramming and ...

A speckle expert at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Kate Alexander, who is an Assistant Professor and Cancer Center member, recently received $2.3 million over five years as a part of the National ...

When the molecular machinery in our cells gets to work transcribing the genetic information encoded in DNA into messenger RNA (mRNA), it pauses shortly after starting. Known as promoter-proximal ...