Once considered cellular junk, non-coding RNAs are emerging as key players in everything from brain development to cancer — ...

How does the cell convert DNA into working proteins? The process of translation can be seen as the decoding of instructions for making proteins, involving mRNA in transcription as well as tRNA. But ...

A new study has discovered an unprecedented pathway producing telomerase RNA from a protein-coding messenger RNA (mRNA). For the very first time, a study led by Julian Chen and his group in Arizona ...

Researchers at Arizona State University’s (ASU) School of Molecular Sciences and the Biodesign Institute’s Center for the Mechanism of Evolution have discovered an unprecedented pathway producing ...

Biopharma has been quickly ramping up investment in messenger RNA (mRNA), the defining technology behind the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. With big plans for mRNA-based therapies, ...