Our DNA is constantly under threat — from cell division errors to external factors like sunlight and smoking. Fortunately, ...

A vast search of natural diversity has led scientists at MIT's McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard ...

RNA sequencing has emerged as a powerful supplement to DNA sequencing for Mendelian disease diagnosis, but clinical ...

The Tas protein uses an RNA guide to recognize a specific target ... They have determined the molecular structure of one of the Tas proteins they found to work in human cells, and will use that ...

RNA splicing is a cellular process that is critical for gene expression. After genes are copied from DNA into messenger ... which sites on the messenger RNA molecule the spliceosome will target.

A vast search of natural diversity has led scientists at MIT's McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to uncover ancient ...

A new method for mapping torsion provides insights into the ways that the genome responds to the torsion generated by RNA polymerase II.

Researchers at Fred Hutch Cancer Center have discovered an overlooked mechanism driving aggressive breast and brain tumors ...

DNA repair proteins act like the body's editors, constantly finding and reversing damage to our genetic code. Researchers have long struggled to understand how cancer cells hijack one of these ...