Each year millions of biological samples are processed, distributed, and stored worldwide. Currently samples such as DNA, RNA, proteins, bacteria, viruses, tissues, and other biological molecules are ...

The recent award of the 2023 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman highlights the growing importance of RNA technology in the medical world, with many potential ...

While the COVID-19 vaccines introduced many people to RNA-based medicines, RNA oligonucleotides have already been on the market for years to treat diseases like Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and ...

Pharmaceutical start-up AIRNA has raised $90 million in an oversubscribed series A financing round. The firm aims to produce drugs that edit RNA transcripts in the body. AIRNA obtained an initial $30 ...

A new approach that strengthens the immune response could lead to intranasal vaccines for covid-19 and other diseases. MIT researchers have tweaked the design of mRNA-based covid-19 vaccines to ...

Two human cells making RNA made visible by the bioluminescent lantern in pink (middle image). On the left, the same cells making a fluorescent protein that's distributed evenly throughout the two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When scientists first cracked the genetic code, they expected a simple story: DNA makes RNA, and that RNA, known as messenger RNA, ...

Proteins are how cells get work done. They carry out nearly every important cellular task, from ferrying messages to ...

Chemists at University College London have shown how two of biology's most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin of ...

The recent award of the 2023 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman highlights the growing importance of RNA technology in the medical world, with many potential ...