The quest for a vaccine against HIV has been going on for about 40 years — almost as long as the virus that causes AIDS has ...

Over the last few years, scientists and entrepreneurs have flocked to developing medicines that target RNA, the genetic ...

The cuts risk making the world a more dangerous place. To assess the impact of these measures, The Economist spoke to more ...

The ability to correct disease-causing genetic mistakes using genome editors holds great promise in medicine, but it is not ...

Researchers identified messenger RNA that is missing in pediatric high-grade glioma tumors but not in normal brain tissues.

Federal funding cuts to mRNA technology research doesn't just impact COVID vaccines — experts say it could stall progress in ...

A new study, led by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), identified tiny pieces of messenger RNA that ...

The Trump administration’s decision to halt nearly $500 million for mRNA vaccine research has made investors more hesitant to ...

DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...

Messenger RNA (mRNA) is a subtype of RNA. An mRNA molecule carries a portion of the DNA code to other parts of the cell for processing. mRNA is created during transcription. During the ...

In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double ...