In the microscopic world of bacteria, gene transfer is a powerful mechanism that can alter cellular function, drive ...

But a team of researchers led by Kishore Guda, associate professor at the Digestive Health Research Institute at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, found a special class of ribonucleic acid ...

Nobel Laureate and University of Chicago professor Jack Szostak delivered two lectures on the origin of life to an audience of professors, graduate, and undergraduate students the Monday and Tuesday ...

For the Liu Lab, necessity is truly the mother of invention. The researchers were examining how the 3D organization of the ...

Genes have to be expressed in the right place, at the time, and at the right levels. Scientists wanted to know more about how ...

With further testing, discovery may offer new target for early detection and treatmentResearchers at Case Western Reserve ...

The goal is to determine how often this lincRNA molecule is activated in these cancers. They also hope to identify whether these RNA molecules are more common in any particular tumor subgroups using ...

MIT biologists have now discovered a new layer of regulation that helps to determine which sites on the messenger RNA molecule the spliceosome will target. The research team discovered that this ...

The cloverleaf structure is formed by the folding of the single-stranded tRNA molecule, which is typically 73-90 nucleotides long. The key structural features of tRNA include: The specificity of ...