The intestinal microbiome is a highly complex ecosystem with thousands of different types of bacteria. Live and let live, ...

A traditionally overlooked type of RNA plays an important role in promoting resilience to depression-but only in females.

We think that this type of discovery may pave the way for an entirely new way of targeting cancer cells. But to understand how this is possible, it's first important to know the different types of RNA ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand ...

Researchers have discovered how a fruit fly protein binds and regulates two different types of RNA target sequence. The study may help explain how various RNA-binding proteins, many of which are ...

But there are two different types of viruses: DNA and RNA. Though we know of RNA viruses like COVID-19, West Nile Virus and the flu, ...

Two Boston University doctoral students, Joshua McGee (ENG’26) and Jack Kirsch (ENG’23), were creating and testing different types of RNA—strands of ribonucleic acid, built from chains of ...

Biologists have discovered a new type of RNA-splicing regulation that helps to determine which protein-coding exons will be included in messenger RNA transcripts.

There are many different types of RNA editing. Reenan's group studies one particular method called A-to-I RNA recoding. It occurs when an enzyme chemically "retypes" RNA letters at specific ...

Since the 1950s, a chemotherapy drug known as 5-fluorouracil has been used to treat many types of cancer, including blood cancers and cancers of the digestive tract.

But to understand how this is possible, it’s first important to know the different types of RNA we have in our body. The mystery of RNA. Only about 1% of DNA is copied into RNAs that make proteins.