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

Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a debilitating, progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects about 7 million Americans, a figure that is expected to nearly double by 2050, according to the ...

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

The human genome may contain more protein-coding genes than prior analyses suggested. A study published last month (May 29) on BioRxiv provides an expanded database of approximately 5,000 novel ...

On Wednesday, the Nobel Committee announced that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to researchers who pioneered major breakthroughs in computational chemistry. These include two researchers ...

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