In human cells, only a small proportion of the information written in genes is used to produce proteins. How does the cell ...

They say that change takes time. Well, that's not the case for RNA. The small biological molecule acts like a switchboard ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Genes contain instructions for making proteins, and a central dogma of biology is that this information flows from DNA to RNA to proteins. But only two percent of the human genome ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism — a novel genomically recoded organism ...

Yale researchers have created "Ochre," a genomically recoded organism that enables the production of synthetic proteins with ...

The CRISPR-Cas9 system offers groundbreaking genome editing capabilities, yet off-target cleavage raises concerns about ...

There are many molecules with therapeutic potential, but it can be a challenge to deliver them to the right places at the ...

Markita Landry is the first to admit that the two applications her research addresses – imaging brain chemistry and delivering genetic material into plants – are rather divergent.

RNA is generally single-stranded, as DNA is transcribed by RNA polymerases into mRNA (messenger RNA), which is read by ribosomes to generate protein (translation). Biologically active RNAs ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing more of a specific protein, even proteins that would normally destroy them, ...

Oligonucleotide therapies are among the most promising biological therapeutics. They target disease at a different stage of ...