Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Double-strand breaks in DNA can be deadly. Victor Golmer/iStock via Getty Images Plus Your DNA is continually damaged by sources ...

A team from University of Toronto Engineering is the first to synthesize long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) outside the cell—a new approach to drug discovery that has already yielded some promising ...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines to the forefront of global health care. After their clinical trial stages, the first COVID-19 mRNA vaccine was administered on 8 December ...

TY1 has the structure of existing RNA drugs, and works like its natural version – amplifying the activity of the Trex1 gene, which increases the activity of immune cells that rally around damaged DNA ...

Explore the breakthrough of lab-made lncRNA by University of Toronto Engineering for new drug discovery potential.

Researchers at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at Heidelberg University Hospital have decoded a previously unknown mechanism by which HIV-1 selects its integration targets in the human ...

RIKEN researchers have discovered how an enzyme modifies gene expression by targeting certain stretches of messenger RNA ...

Discover how circular RNA technology enhances gene expression by up to 50-fold in eye treatments, surpassing traditional ...

Scientists have identified an RNA-based sperm aging clock driven by rsRNA length changes, which may help assess paternal reproductive risk and offspring health.

People are still debating whether the mRNA from COVID-19 vaccines remains in the body longer than it should. Some say it lingers and causes harm, others say that idea just doesn’t hold up. A new ...