Researchers have discovered yet another role for long-noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs): preventing cell suicide in red blood cells. The findings, published today (December 7) in Genes and Development, suggest ...

What keeps our cells the right size? Scientists have long puzzled over this fundamental question, since cells that are too large or too small are linked to many diseases. Until now, the genetic basis ...

No one really knew why some patients with a white blood cell cancer called chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or C.L.L., relapsed after treatment and got a second cancer. Were some cancer cells just ...

Our genetic code is stored in chromosomes that are composed of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). To make sure the genetic code is maintained accurately in all the cells, our cells must replicate precisely ...

Scientists have discovered that centromeric DNA is used as a template to produce a non-protein coding, centromeric RNA (ribonucleic acid), that is essential for chromosome stability. If there is too ...

Once certain cellular machinery detects that a cell is changing into cancer, it triggers the kill code to destroy the mutating cell. The code is found in large protein-coding ribonucleic acids (RNAs) ...

Knowledge on how cells communicate is an important key to understanding many biological systems and diseases. A research team has now used a unique combination of methods to map the mechanism behind ...