We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of ...

For the first time, scientists can view RNA molecules directly inside cells and tissue in minute detail and across the entire ...

DNA is the darling of the high-tech detective world, whether it’s used to solve murders or track what animals are nearby. But what about it’s less famous relative, RNA? It turns out, this type of ...

Our genes contain all the instructions our body needs to function, but their expression must be finely regulated to guarantee that each cell performs its role optimally. This is where DNA and RNA ...

Francesca Storici consults at Tessera Therapeutics. She has received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both ...

Nutcracker Therapeutics is driving down costs, accelerating speed of processing and improving scalability with an end-to-end, GMP-grade production process. Healthcare is on the cusp of a ...

Elegen and Nutcracker Therapeutics launched a pilot program to demonstrate what they label the industry’s first fully synthetic, cell-free manufacturing platform for RNA-based personalized cancer ...