There weren’t any victims Thursday in Allegheny County Court, but Judge Jaime Hickton brought up the importance of not ...

The father of a former Highlands School District teacher accused of sexually assaulting students now has legal problems of his own. Harold Dicer, 77, of Plum is charged with simple assault, harassment ...

A former Penn Christian Academy teacher with criminal charges in two cases stemming from his tenure teaching at an Allegheny ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A former teacher accused of sexually assaulting students is facing new charges. Channel 11 previously reported that 53-year-old ...

Cells use RNA as a versatile tool to regulate the activity of their genes. Small snippets of RNA can fine-tune how much protein is produced from various genes; some small RNAs can shut genes off ...

Could yeast and humans be any more different? Going by looks alone, probably not. But peering into our genomes reveals surprising similarities. That's because we share a common ancestor called LECA ...

An attorney wants justice for students who police say were sexually assaulted by their teacher. Sean Dicer, a former Highlands School District teacher, has been charged with assaulting at least four ...

The first crystal structure of Dicer, an enzyme that initiates RNA interference (RNAi), suggests how it works. RNAi is a process in which short RNA molecules recognize messenger RNAs and mark them for ...

Figure 2: The Dicer–TRBP complex processes miRNAs and associates with siRNA to form a ternary complex with Ago2. Figure 4: The Dicer–TRBP complex is required for miRNA biogenesis and ...

RNase III proteins have central roles in RNA silencing by processing double-stranded (ds)RNA precursors into small RNA duplexes 1. Drosha cleaves a primary precursor of miRNA (pri-miRNA) to release a ...