By vanishing quickly, RNA avoids DNA’s problem of lingering too long, giving ecologists a sharper, more immediate picture of ...

As climate change and human activity threaten freshwater ecosystems like lakes and rivers, it's more important than ever to ...

In human cells, there are about 20,000 genes on a two-meter DNA strand—finely coiled up in a nucleus about 10 micrometers in ...

DNA holds our genetic blueprints, but its cousin, RNA, conducts our daily lives I n 1957, just four years after Francis Crick ...

A bacterial protein helps to stop transcription -- the process of making RNA copies of DNA to carry out the functions of the cell -- by causing the cellular machinery that transcribes the DNA to ...

DNA contains the sugar deoxyribose, while RNA contains the sugar ribose, which has one more oxygen atom than deoxyribose, and DNA is typically double-stranded, forming a double helix structure.

News Release 4-Dec-2014 Loss of a chemical tag on RNA keeps embryonic stem cells in suspended animation Research suggests new strategy to control cellular identity and fate Peer-Reviewed Publication ...

Discovery boosts theory that life on Earth arose from RNA-DNA mix Newly described chemical reaction could have assembled DNA building blocks before life forms and their enzymes existed Date ...

RNA’s Surprising Role in DNA Repair New insights could lead to improved treatments for cancer and other diseases. Francesca Storici and her research team discovered a surprising role for RNA in DNA ...