A promising path to fighting COVID and other coronaviruses may have been based on a serious mistake. Scientists had zeroed in ...

When the first reports of a new COVID-19 variant emerge, scientists worldwide scramble to answer a critical question: Will ...

The COVID pandemic illustrated how urgently we need antiviral medications capable of treating coronavirus infections. To aid ...

Maintaining high transcriptional fidelity is essential to life. For all eukaryotic organisms, RNA polymerase II (Pol II) is responsible for messenger RNA synthesis from the DNA template. Three key ...

Page 6624. The funding source for the work carried out by Jack Dunkle and Jamie Cate was inadvertently omitted. The final sentence in the Acknowledgments section should read: This work was supported ...

With Terrana Biosciences, Moderna founder Flagship can apply its RNA knowledge to agricultural use cases like pest and ...

Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But ...

A rare cell in the lining of lungs is fundamental to the organ-wide response necessary to repair damage from toxins like ...

A strategy that analyzes the structural properties of RNA could help identify regions that are promising targets for antiviral drugs.