The RNA world hypothesis proposes that early life was based on RNA, which subsequently devolved the storage of information to more stable DNA, and catalytic functions to more versatile proteins.

Kaushik Chanda is a postdoctoral researcher at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology (Scripps Research). He studies how long non-coding RNAs drive structural ...

In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have now uncovered new evidence showing how recently evolved "junk DNA" genetic elements can become ...

In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have uncovered new evidence showing how recently evolved "junk DNA" genetic elements can become ...

Nadine and David Lipworth have devoted their lives to finding treatment that will restore the daughter they knew.

RNA chaperones are gaining traction as a way to keep the RNA-binding protein TDP-43 in its physiological conformation and prevent it from clumping up. Now, scientists offer a way to make these ...

Breakthrough discovery of fungal long non-coding RNA attack mechanism could enable greener, broad-spectrum disease-resistant rice and wheat varieties Chinese scientists have uncovered a previously ...

Synonymous DNA substitutions have often been viewed as quiet changes because they do not alter the amino acid sequence of a ...

In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have now uncovered new evidence showing how ...

The “dark proteome” includes uncharacterized proteins that may influence cancer growth, immune evasion, and therapy ...

The discovery of thousands of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) has expanded our view on mammalian genomes and transcriptomes, as well as their organization and regulation. Accumulating evidence on aberrantly ...