Researchers have developed a way to use lasers to study the splicing of pre-messenger RNA molecules, an essential process in creating proteins to sustain advanced organisms, including human life. Now ...

Important messages require accurate transmission. Big genes are especially challenging. During processing, introns (non-coding elements) are snipped out and exons (coding segments) pasted together to ...

(Nanowerk News) From neurosurgery to bar code readers, lasers have been used in a myriad of applications since they were first introduced in the late 1950's. Now, with the work being done in Jeff ...