It all started in the lab. Two Boston University doctoral students, Joshua McGee and Jack Kirsch, were creating and testing different types of RNA—strands of ribonucleic acid, built from chains of ...

Imagine doctors could understand exactly which cells caused a patient's cancer or whether pathogens contributed to the ...

A new RNA search engine can scan millions of cells in seconds for mutations, pathogens, isoforms and other biological clues.

Plain-language definition: RNA therapy is medicine that works by adding, blocking, or changing RNA instructions inside cells. More formally, it is a class of treatment that uses RNA molecules, or ...

CRISPR powers everything from gene editing to rapid diagnostics, but how did one of its most versatile branches arise? A new Cell study, “Functional RNA splitting drove the evolutionary emergence of ...

The research team discovered that this type of regulation, which appears to influence the expression of about half of all human genes, is found throughout the animal kingdom, as well as in plants. The ...

A group of interdisciplinary Boston University researchers worked together to investigate the promising technology of self-amplifying RNA as a way to deliver lifesaving drugs and create more effective ...

Biologists have discovered a new type of RNA-splicing regulation that helps to determine which protein-coding exons will be included in messenger RNA transcripts. RNA splicing is a cellular process ...