Tag: RNA

DNA is like your long-term boyfriend. It’s stable, reliable, and we’re pretty comfortable with it. But there’s a dark horse, a smoldering, short-lived but sexy alternative with hidden depths and skills. One that we’ve overlooked for too long and are now starting to finally ap...

Every once in a while, medicine changes in a fundamental way, and we may not realize it while it’s happening. I wasn’t around in 1928 when Fleming discovered penicillin, or in 1953 when Watson, Crick, and Franklin characterized the double-helical structure of DNA. But looking at Medic...