The latest chemistry news, including important research advances, business and policy trends, chemical safety practices, career guidance, and more. RNA transcription isn’t a fully continuous process; ...

This story is part of a larger series on viroids and virusoids, small infectious RNAs. It is also the sixth installment in a series on hepatitis D virus, a virusoid-like pathogen that causes serious ...

The human genome contains about 23,000 genes, but only a fraction of those genes are turned on inside a cell at any given time. The complex network of regulatory elements that controls gene expression ...

Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology came of age during COVID-19 with several vaccines and therapeutics coming to market. However, since the height of the pandemic, the flow of new mRNA-based products has ...

Cryptic transcription by senescent cells was first observed in yeast and worms and later confirmed in mammalian cells. While its function, especially in mammalian cells, has yet to be fully ...

Like adding new letters to an existing language’s alphabet to expand its vocabulary, adding new synthetic nucleotides to the genetic alphabet could expand the possibilities of synthetic biology. This ...