At a virtual conference in November 2020, the winner of a biennial protein-structure-prediction challenge was announced: AlphaFold. Created by Google DeepMind, this computational tool had blown its ...

New research shows that lipid nanoparticles used in mRNA vaccines may deliver RNA more effectively when their structure is disorganised.

理化学研究所（理研）生命医科学研究センタートランスクリプトーム研究チームのアレッサンドロ・ボネッティ客員研究員、ピエロ・カルニンチチームリーダーらの研究チームは、細胞核内のRNAとゲノムDNA（クロマチン[1] ）の相互作用をゲノム全体で調べる ...

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge have discovered a ribozyme that is shockingly small, yet ...

－実験室での生命誕生過程の再現に向けて－ 理化学研究所（理研）生命機能科学研究センター高機能生体分子開発チームの李佩瑩（リ・ペエイ）研究員、田上俊輔チームリーダーらの国際共同研究チームは、正電荷を持つペプチド[1] 凝集体がRNA[2] を吸着し ...

When RNA molecules are synthesized by cells — a critical process in the creation of proteins and other cellular functions — they typically undergo a series of “folding” events that determine their ...

Two separate laboratory breakthroughs have produced RNA molecules that can build copies of themselves or assemble functional structures without any help from proteins or DNA. These results offer the ...

Neurons have a "hibernation mode." Scientists discover how brain cells use RNA tentacles to lock their protein factories together to survive when energy is low.

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint ...