Targeted retroviral delivery of DNA is effective but hard to control, and can often prove cytotoxic due to insertional mutagenesis.

IP7 offers a nonenzymatic alternative for adding phosphate to proteins

RNA interference can turn off morphine production in poppies, according to a group from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Plant Industry in Canberra, Australia.

Viruses which infect all three domains of life could be descended from bacteriophage

Studies show small interfering RNAs can be used without triggering immune response

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Hairpin RNA used to disrupt morphine pathway with surprising, and useful, results

finds that cells can use process to entrap bacteria

Double-strand DNA break repair pathways appear conserved, suggesting new ways to make libraries

Researchers nearly triple number of known alternative regulators in Drosophila

Global analysis of microarray data provides a hypothesis-generating tool for cancer

Results of biosynthesis studies may improve understanding of pain, immunity, and behavior