Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most known CRISPR systems target invading pathogens' DNA and chop it up to ...

This is a summary of: Liu. H. et al. Viral RNA blocks circularization to evade host codon usage control. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09809-y (2025).

Across all domains of life, immune defenses foil invading viruses by making it impossible for the viruses to replicate. Most ...

Bayer's agrochemicals unit Monsanto has filed lawsuits in the US against the manufacturers of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines, ...

Restricted access to genome-editing technologies poses serious challenges for countries like India that urgently need such ...

Researchers found that sunburn disables a natural skin defense, allowing inflammation to trigger dangerous changes in cells. Understanding this process could help stop skin cancer before it starts.

With a new study in the journal Science Bulletin, researchers at Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University have discovered a new way that aggressive breast cancer cells escape the immune ...

Life’s most indispensable molecules are not the serene, unchanging fixtures they might appear to be. Even the proteins that ...

Scientists extracted RNA from a 130-year-old specimen, uncovering which genes were active before the animal went extinct.

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...