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.

A selection of notable quotes from the annual American Association for Cancer Research meeting

Stressed male mice can pass on an abnormal stress response to their offspring via microRNAs found in sperm, a study shows.

Professor, Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Age: 36

Previously enigmatic circular RNAs have been found to influence gene expression by binding to and blocking another class of regulatory RNA, the microRNAs.

Gene expression controlled from afar may have spurred the spurt in brain evolution that led to modern humans.