In 1989, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Sidney Altman for their discovery that RNA “is not only a molecule of heredity, but also can function as a biocatalyst,” or enzyme ...

Victor Ambros, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, has gained international ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder in which the α-synuclein protein abnormally aggregates within brain ...

Now, two women have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for developing ... Toward the beginning of her career, Dr. Doudna studied RNA enzymes with the hope of uncovering their structure ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder in which the α-synuclein protein abnormally aggregates within brain cells, causing neuronal damage.

figured out a tiny modification to the building blocks of RNA that made it stealthy enough to slip past immune defenses. Karikó, 68, is the 13th woman to win the Nobel Prize in medicine.

The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska ... Subsequent work by Blackburn and Greider identified that enzyme, which is now known as telomerase, and showed that it was composed of both a protein and a ...

Victor Ambros (l) and Gary Ruvkun (r) share the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have shared this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their ...

the pair had worked out a way to stop the immune system from attacking RNA made in the laboratory, previously seen as a major hurdle against its use. Rickard Sandberg, a member of the Nobel ...

Both microRNAs and the related class of small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are small snippets of RNA—just 21 or 22 nucleotides ... that removing any of the other enzymes in the heme biosynthesis ...

Drug Target 2 Encourage Defective Viruses: A drug could interfere with the viral RNA polymerase enzyme, which works with another enzyme called ExoN (not shown) to fix mistakes in copied viruses ...

At the start of his tenure with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Roberts originally intended to focus on using restriction enzymes to sequence DNA, echoing the RNA sequencing techniques developed by ...