Researchers say discoveries could expand the CRISPR toolbox and lead to more efficient, rapid diagnostic tools for detecting COVID-19, influenza, and RSV.

Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) deliver specific amino acids to ribosomes during translation of messenger RNA into proteins. The abundance of tRNAs can therefore have a profound impact on cell physiology, but ...

Blacksburg, Va. – Scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) report in the Journal of Bacteriology that two alphaproteobacteria lack the universal extra guanylate nucleotide typically ...

When Daniel Fischer cofounded Tevard Biosciences in 2017, he wasn’t trying to bet on the next hot RNA technology. His interest was more personal. His daughter Natasha has Dravet syndrome, a rare form ...

In-depth mass spectrometric analysis reveals how cells survive stress by coordinating various enzymes that modify RNAs involved in protein synthesis. Despite the remarkable functional diversity that ...

We welcome Drs Nathan Howell and Boaz Tirosh as new faculty members in the Department of Biochemistry! Dr. Howell is an Assistant Professor with research interests in tRNA modification. He is an ...

Nathalie Reid decided to pursue a career in biochemistry because the field combines her interests in biology, chemistry and mathematics. Now, the first-year PhD candidate in the Department of ...

A cell contains several hundred thousand tRNA molecules, each of which consists of only 70 to 90 nucleotides folded into a cloverleaf-like pattern. At one end, tRNAs carry one of the twenty amino ...