For the Liu Lab, necessity is truly the mother of invention. The researchers were examining how the 3D organization of the ...

Findings show potential for new lipid-based delivery formulations as a platform technology for immunizationPhiladelphia, PA, ...

Chemical and biomolecular engineers at Georgia Tech have developed a plug-and-play platform that's simple, flexible, and easy ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...

Johns Hopkins scientists develop mRNA "booster" as potential new way to treat rare genetic diseases marked by too low levels ...

Genes have to be expressed in the right place, at the time, and at the right levels. Scientists wanted to know more about how ...

In addition to exporting materials out of the nucleus, the protein, called Exportin-1 (also called Xpo1 or Crm1), seems to play a role in promoting gene transcription, the process that creates RNA ...

Radiation therapy is a powerful tool for fighting cancer, but it comes with painful side effects. About 60% of cancer ...

Researchers have identified an ancient RNA-guided system that can target DNA, potentially expanding the genome-editing toolbox.

In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive ...