Scientists have recovered the oldest-known RNA, a molecule necessary for most biological functions, from a woolly mammoth ...

Researchers from Stockholm University have—for the first time ever—managed to successfully isolate and sequence RNA molecules ...

A 40,000-year-old juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka is not only remarkable because she was uncovered nearly intact or her grisly cause of death. Her muscles provided paleogeneticists with the oldest ...

RNA plays a vital role in how our genes are expressed and how diseases develop. Yet, because RNA molecules constantly change ...

A woolly mammoth that lived and died nearly 40,000 years ago has given us a spectacular scientific first, millennia later.

For the first time ever, scientists have successfully extracted RNA from a woolly mammoth, with analysis supporting ...

Discover the importance of nucleic acids for your health. Learn what foods are good sources of nucleic acids and how to ...

Following a gift from Brown trustee Giammaria Giuliani P’28 and Sabrina Giuliani P’28, Brown’s RNA center will be named the ...

With a three-year, $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Chi Zhang, ...

Within each cell, there is a constant struggle between life-sustaining molecules and molecules that could hasten its demise.

Researchers have designed a smart drug that hunts down and breaks a little-known RNA that cancer cells depend on. The drug ...