Once considered cellular junk, non-coding RNAs are emerging as key players in everything from brain development to cancer — ...

A comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes has just been completed and released. Researchers used large-scale evolutionary modeling to integrate data on ...

Nucleic acid-based therapeutics, including antisense oligonucleotides (ASO), small interfering RNA (siRNA), messenger RNA (mRNA), immunomodulatory DNA/RNA, and gene-editing guide RNA (gRNA), hold ...

To understand the human genome, scientists focused on protein-coding genes and their functions for decades. This has given us ...

Proteins are far more than nutrients we track on a food label. Present in every cell of our bodies, they work like nature's ...

Scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) report that inactivating a certain protein-coding gene promotes liver tissue regeneration in mammals. "This ...