A noninvasive saliva test accurately identified concussions in a study of hundreds of rugby players.

A finding of distinct patterns of gene-regulating RNA snippets in the blood of ME/CFS patients in response to a stress test could pave the way for a diagnostic tool for the condition and help untangle its underlying mechanisms.

Weill Cornell Medicine geneticist Christopher Mason speaks with The Scientist about a bolus of new work on the physiological, cellular, and molecular effects of leaving Earth.

Collagen inside ankles has more turnover than that in hips, thanks to the action of microRNAs.

Renewed interest from the biotech industry sparks hope for drugging the nucleic acid to treat cancer and other conditions.

A new device uses anchored nanowires to capture extracellular vesicles from pee for microRNA analysis.

A microfluidic device collects microRNAs for analysis.

Mice lacking the RNA had deregulated microRNAs in the brain, disrupted synaptic communication, and behavioral abnormalities associated with neuropsychiatric disorders.

Our guide to all known forms of RNA, from cis-NAT to vault RNA and everything in between.

Removing a specific miRNA from stem cells may induce the expression of endogenous retroviruses that enable the cells to form extra-embryonic lineages.

A braided structure and some adhesive hydrogel make therapeutic microRNAs both stable and sticky.

A general guide to collecting and processing saliva

The same microRNAs can have opposing roles in cancer.

Robert Weinberg’s team at MIT is pulling three papers, noting some figure panels were composites of different experiments.

Microorganisms continually challenge our assumptions of what life can achieve.

In mice, a transcriptional regulator, β-catenin, activates a microRNA-processing pathway in the nucleus accumbens to promote resilience to social stress.

Meet some of the people featured in the February 2015 issue of The Scientist.

In a mouse model of a rare disease, scientists have figured out how to reduce the elevated cancer risk tied to a gene therapy treatment.