Scientists have identified a microbe capable of interpreting a single piece of genetic code in two completely different ways.

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Lurking in the vast expanse of the ocean and buried deep in the Siberian permafrost, there are giants—not blue whales and ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to target RNA that could lead to new treatment options for myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), the most common adult-onset form of ...

Mounting evidence from research on nematodes to mice indicate that a father's environment, such as what he eats or if he is ...

Rapid advances in sequencing technologies have transformed our ability to diagnose human genetic disorders, yet many patients still lack a molecular ...

In a world of confusing road signs, there’s one that’s never hard to figure out: STOP. Way before driver’s ed, we all knew the key details about its shape and what to do when you saw one. Heck, even a ...

An alternative splicing regulator previously implicated in calcium signaling in the heart ensures cell-type-specific mRNA processing of long neuronal mRNAs in the mouse brain.