A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

Humans have it. So does Drosophila. But not yeast. That "it" is a small pause at the start of gene activity—a brief molecular ...

As eukaryotic cells started to form, eukaryotic traits may have emerged in early cells about one billion years before the ...

Genes encode proteins and proteins dictate cell function. Therefore, the thousands of genes expressed in a particular cell determine what that cell can do. Moreover, each step in the flow of ...