RNA has emerged as one of the most promising molecules in modern medicine, enabling advances from mRNA vaccines and gene ...

The molecular machinery that normally builds proteins inside cells has now taken on a new role as a "switch." A research team ...

Encoding information in DNA has long seemed like a promising way to secure data for the long term, but so far it has required an expert touch. It turns out that you don’t need to be a scientist to ...

As genome editing therapies move through clinical trials to regulatory approval, scientists continue the quest for the holy ...

Thomas Gingeras did not intend to upend basic ideas about how the human body works. In 2012 the geneticist, now at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York State, was one of a few hundred colleagues ...

Genetic activity underlies biological functions, so organisms have to make sure that the right genes are expressed at the right levels, in the proper places, at the correct times. Now scientists are ...