Ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules may be best known for their job ferrying the genetic information encoded in DNA to a cell's ...

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 ...

A new study reveals that a transposable element binds to cellular DNA during the brief periods when nuclei break open as ...

The only remaining autonomous 'jumping gene' can only attach to, and stitch a copy of itself into, DNA when it builds up into large clusters and only as cells divide.

Viruses are known to use the genetic machinery of the human cells they invade to make copies of themselves. As part of the process, viruses leave behind remnants throughout the genetic material ...

All five nucleobases that make up DNA and RNA have now been detected in meteorite samples, according to a study published yesterday (April 26) in Nature Communications. The work used recently ...

RNA-based technologies are a powerful molecular biology toolbox, empowering scientists to decipher the complexities of living ...

when the structure of DNA and RNA was elucidated. The discovery of uracil and its pairing with adenine in RNA was a crucial milestone in understanding the genetic code and the central dogma of ...