The latest chemistry news, including important research advances, business and policy trends, chemical safety practices, career guidance, and more. RNA transcription isn’t a fully continuous process; ...

Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology came of age during COVID-19 with several vaccines and therapeutics coming to market. However, since the height of the pandemic, the flow of new mRNA-based products has ...

This story is part of a larger series on viroids and virusoids, small infectious RNAs. It is also the sixth installment in a series on hepatitis D virus, a virusoid-like pathogen that causes serious ...

Like adding new letters to an existing language’s alphabet to expand its vocabulary, adding new synthetic nucleotides to the genetic alphabet could expand the possibilities of synthetic biology. This ...

Cryptic transcription by senescent cells was first observed in yeast and worms and later confirmed in mammalian cells. While its function, especially in mammalian cells, has yet to be fully ...