Nicole Steinmetz engineers plant virus nanoparticles into versatile drug-delivery platforms. This work expanded into cancer ...

SenseUP’s platform tech could overcome the cost and stability hurdles holding back RNAi-based crop protection, claims the ...

A federal jury on Thursday found Wisconsin circuit court judge Hannah Dugan guilty of felony obstruction charges stemming from her supposed interference in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...

Innatrix, an agricultural biotech startup based in RTP, is addressing one of agriculture’s biggest challenges — pathogen and pest resistance to conventional pesticides. The company has made steady ...

Northern root knot nematode worms (colored) attacking bean roots. Root knot nematodes are major agricultural pests attacking a wide variety of plants including major crops. A new study of the ...

Researchers have sequenced the oldest RNA ever recovered, taken from a woolly mammoth frozen for nearly 40,000 years. The RNA reveals which genes were active in its tissues, offering a rare glimpse ...

With the support of two new funding sources — including a gift from a Brown trustee and a grant from the National Institutes of Health — Brown is expanding RNA research on campus in a continued effort ...

Eli Lilly has penned a research pact worth $1.2 billion in biobucks with SanegeneBio to help pinpoint cardiometabolic RNAi medicines at the correct tissues. The agreement centers around Sanegene’s ...

At first glance, it’s a wonder that jumping parasitic nematodes exist at all. To reproduce, these minuscule creatures—roughly the size of a pinpoint—hurl themselves up to 25 times their body length to ...

Certain nutrients in food can trigger a mild stress response in nematodes. But instead of making them sick, this actually helps them stay healthier as they age, according to researchers at the ...

CRISPR powers everything from gene editing to rapid diagnostics, but how did one of its most versatile branches arise? A new Cell study, “Functional RNA splitting drove the evolutionary emergence of ...