A review in Biomolecules and Biomedicine sheds light on how microRNAs (miRNAs)—small regulatory RNA molecules—play a central ...

“You share 50 percent of your DNA with each of your parents. But with bananas, we share about 50 percent of our genes,” Mike ...

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab ...

The question of life's origin on Earth continues to surprise. A new study challenges an old idea: that a chemical reaction ...

Creative Diagnostics, a leading manufacturer and supplier of antibodies, antigens and assay kits, has announced its ...

† Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, United States ‡ Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular ...

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Somatic hypermutation (SHM) of immunoglobulin variable (V) regions modulates antibody-antigen affinity is initiated by activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) on single-stranded DNA (ssDNA).

CRISPR-edited iPSCs uncover early mitochondrial defects shared across ALS mutations, revealing pathways that could guide future treatments.

University of Pennsylvania researchers have discovered a right-handed, antiparallel double-helix inside influenza ...

A team of researchers studied the properties of membranes to understand how these cellular structures influenced the chemistry of life on Earth as it began.