Here’s an RNA-based therapeutic approach that’s well worth keeping an eye on, not least because it takes a different path than the ones that most of us have heard about. This transfer-RNA (tRNA) route ...

Bacteria fine-tune gene expression not only by controlling which genes are switched on, but also by regulating how efficiently their encoded proteins are produced. Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) carry chemical ...

In the quest to improve our ability to produce more complex non-standard proteins, a research team has broken from conventional wisdom to reveal some fascinating insights into our evolutionary history ...

Biomedical engineer Bowen Li and his colleagues at the University of Toronto have demonstrated that suppressor transfer RNAs (tRNAs) can restore production of a protein associated with cystic fibrosis ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a next-generation RNA therapeutic approach with the potential to treat a wide range of genetic diseases that share certain disease-causing ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a next-generation RNA therapeutic strategy that could have the potential to treat a wide range of genetic diseases that share certain types of ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto tested modified tRNA against Vertex's Trikafta. (iStock/Getty Images) While mRNA may be back in the headlines courtesy of Moderna and Merck & Co.'s phase 3 ...

Transfer RNA, more commonly referred to as tRNA, is well known for its key role in translating genetic material into protein. Recent discoveries about fragments of tRNA, which scientists had ...

A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers stumbled upon a bizarre genetic code in a microscopic pond organism.

Base editing and prime editing can be used to permanently fix pathogenic variants but require the development of a distinct drug to correct each pathogenic variant. Suppressor transfer RNAs (sup-tRNAs ...

Scientists at UC Berkeley have discovered a microbe that bends one of biology’s most sacred rules. Instead of treating a specific three-letter DNA code as a clear “stop” signal, this methane-producing ...