Once considered cellular junk, non-coding RNAs are emerging as key players in everything from brain development to cancer — ...

Proteins are far more than nutrients we track on a food label. Present in every cell of our bodies, they work like nature's ...

A comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes has just been completed and released. Researchers used large-scale evolutionary modeling to integrate data on ...

To understand the human genome, scientists focused on protein-coding genes and their functions for decades. This has given us ...

The Human Domainome 1—the largest library of human protein variants—reveals the cause of certain genetic disorders, paving the way for personalized medicines. “We measured every possible mutation in ...

Scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) report that inactivating a certain protein-coding gene promotes liver tissue regeneration in mammals. "This ...