A team led by UNC School of Medicine researchers is the first to confirm that a small molecule called miR-29 plays a role in driving aging. Their new findings are published in Communications Biology.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Like tiny superheroes, small, naturally occurring segments of RNA can block multiple molecular paths that cancer cells use to grow and spread, a substantial advantage over even ...

The latest study from the Sharma Lab makes the mechanisms of how epigenetic information is established in sperm cells, and how that encoding affects offspring health, a little less of a scientific ...

Scientists on their quest to find the origin of life have stared into the primordial soup, trying to answer the ultimate chicken-and-egg question: Which came first, the genetic code or the proteins ...

Transposable elements (TEs), also called transposons, are DNA sequences capable of moving or replicating from one location to another within a genome. While TEs are the most significant fraction of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A London-based biotech firm has announced a collaboration and licensing agreement with a Japanese pharmaceutical ...

Not everything inside us is, strictly speaking, us. The closer we look at the genome, the more we appreciate the role of small RNAs in what we call epigenetic inheritance. That’s when traits get ...

Boston)—Transposable elements (TEs), also called transposons, are DNA sequences capable of moving or replicating from one location to another within ...

The discovery of siRNA and its role in RNAi was a groundbreaking finding in the field of molecular biology. In 1998, Andrew Fire and Craig Mello published a seminal paper describing the phenomenon of ...

Evidence is growing that sperm carries marks of a father’s life experiences, influencing traits in offspring.