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

Detail from Small's reprocessed cryo-EM data zooming in on an unoccupied area of the SARS-CoV-2 NiRAN domain. (Courtesy of ...

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

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

RNA molecules can undergo chemical modifications—the addition of specific chemical groups—which alter their function and behavior without changing the underlying nucleotide sequence.

RNA molecules degrade quickly when exposed to sunlight, rain, and soil microbes. The researchers are working on nanoparticle-based delivery systems to improve RNA stability and ensure long-lasting ...

Their study, which was published in Nature Chemical Biology, paves the way for new therapies that can "unfreeze" these RNA structures to combat other mosquito-borne RNA viruses.

Scientists had the bright idea to take that same enzyme that makes fireflies glow and tie it to RNA, the molecule that reads the genetic information in DNA. This developing technology has been used on ...

One hypothesis for life's emergence, called the "RNA World," was first proposed by Alexander Rich in 1962: In the beginning, before the first biological entities formed, individual RNA molecules ...

There’s still a lot to learn: for example, whether the other molecules packaged in EVs help deliver the RNA message. “It’s a fun challenge to unravel all of that,” she said.