From enzymes and lipid nanoparticles to large-scale process design, four global innovators redefine RNA-based medicine development and delivery.

Scientists provide fresh insights on the origins of life, presenting compelling evidence supporting the 'RNA World' hypothesis. The study unveils an RNA enzyme that can make accurate copies of other ...

Dr. Cech is a biochemist and the author of the forthcoming book “The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets,” from which this essay is adapted. From E=mc² to splitting the atom ...

Nicholas Dreisbach (left) is a Senior Associate Scientist in the RNA team at ElevateBio (MA, USA), where he deploys his skills as an expert in capillary gel electrophoresis (CGE) technologies. His ...

Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between organisms widely separated by evolution. For a molecule of RNA, the world is a ...

Many writers grouse when an editor makes a change in a story, but the consequences of changing a single word usually aren’t that dire. Not so with genetic instructions for making proteins. Even a ...

The oldest genetic remains in history were discovered in the preserved tissues of a young mammoth, a species that became extinct almost forty thousand years ago. The finding was recently published in ...

Some 39,000 years ago, a woolly mammoth died in present-day Siberia, destined to be blanketed by ice and permafrost that would end up preserving its body — even down to the hair and muscle. Now, that ...