RNA and DNA are chemical cousins. But one tiny difference between them (an extra oxygen atom repeated along RNA’s backbone) ...

Few molecular designs manage to bridge two worlds as different as immunology and nucleic acid chemistry, yet ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of ...

Scientists have identified a previously unrecognized layer of the human genome. It's built not from DNA's usual building blocks, but from small fragments of RNA embedded directly inside it. Georgia ...

New method uses DNA barcodes for high throughput RNA and protein detection in deep tissue. ScienceDaily. Retrieved September 28, 2026 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 03 / ...

Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a double-strand break involves the severing of both strands of the DNA double ...

Understand the stages of a standard RNA-seq bioinformatics workflow, including the role of QC, alignment, gene expression quantification, and specialized application analyses Identify key QC metrics ...

The work establishes the world’s first system that uses DNA, rather than RNA, to guide CRISPR enzymes to its target. Instead of using RNA as a guide, the team engineered CRISPR to use DNA, which is ...

Scientists may have found a clue to one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the origin of life: how fragile RNA molecules could gather and survive before cells existed. New research shows that RNA is ...