It's a common storytelling trope: the stubborn foe who is eventually revealed to be a much-needed friend. Biology has its own ...

These sequences are extremely prone to mutations and rank among the most functionally important regions in the entire human ...

Structures long blamed for blocking genes actually help them turn on, according to the Cornell Chronicle. Cornell scientists found that nucleosomes — the spools that package DNA — relieve twisting ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how molecular "traffic controllers" in cells influence aging and cellular ...

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Through a recent notice, the Undergraduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB) of the National Medical Commission (NMC) has ...

Research presented by Dr Erik Sahai has shown that early, reversible diversity in tumour cell state can blunt the effect of ...

Triglia discusses her research at the intersection of genetics, epigenetics, single-cell genomics and computational biology.

Thymagen (also called thymogen; dipeptide Glu-Trp, EW) is a synthetic peptide analog derived from thymic extracts and regarded in peptide bioregulator research for its putative immunoregulatory and ...

RNA is usually portrayed as a molecule that works deep inside the cell, helping to turn genetic information into proteins.

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

Humans have it. So does Drosophila. But not yeast. That "it" is a small pause at the start of gene activity—a brief molecular halt that may have helped life evolve from simple cells to complex animals ...