The expression of genes has to be carefully regulated in cells; active genes give cells their identity and ability to function. Epigenetic features are just one way that cells control gene expression, ...

Turning genes on and off is like flipping a light switch, controlling whether genes in a cell are active. When a gene is ...

The research field of 'cellular IRESes' lay dormant for decades, as there was no uniform standard of reliable methods for the clear characterization of these starting points for the ribosome-mediated ...

In an article published in the journal Nature Communications, scientists have studied a protein, called HP1, which is ...

A figure from the paper illustates a key finding of "compromised compartmentalization": chromatin that was locking genes down in health became more open in Alzheimer's, while chromatin that was open ...

A gene-editing tool that can turn genes on and off like a light switch has been developed. Turning a gene on means activating the production of ...

A new randomized study finds that a lab test that reads tumor genes can identify which patients with recurrent prostate ...