Recent neuroscience studies have consistently outlined the role of the C9ORF72 gene in the development of some neurodegenerative diseases. These studies found that mutations of this gene increase the ...

A collaborative study by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, and University of Southern California reports on how a process known as alternative splicing, often described as ...

Explore The RNA World and the 'sweet spot' for life's earliest beginnings on Earth. Discover how RNA catalyzed life and the precise conditions that allowed ...

Much like a courier reading an address on a package, neurons must deliver RNA to the precise locations where it is needed. A ...

Our cells need to be able to recognize potential invaders as a threat, the key function of the body's innate immune system. Sometimes this process fails, causing the body to react to its own cells, ...

Solid tumors are not just collections of rogue cells dividing out of control; they are physically abnormal ecosystems.

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a relentless scarring disease of the lung with a median survival of roughly three years, has ...

Fred Hutch researchers invent a CRISPR screening method to understand RNA-binding proteins often mutated in cancer and other diseases In biology’s standard tale of two acids — deoxyribonucleic (DNA) ...

The recognition of mRNA molecules as a transformative class of therapeutic drugs has soared, particularly with the development of COVID 19 mRNA vaccines. The cancer treatment landscape is similarly ...