Most genes are ancient and shared across species. But a small subset of genes are relative newcomers, spontaneously emerging ...

For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code - a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions.

T-bet is a transcription factor, one of the control proteins in the cell nucleus that can turn specific groups of genes on ...

The link between cytoskeletal actin dynamics and correlated gene activities was unclear. However, the discovery that globular actin polymerization liberates myocardin family transcriptional ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

The study, authored by Tripti Midha, Anatoly Kolomeisky and Oleg Igoshin and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code — a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions.

The findings were published on January 7 in the journal Nucleic Acids Research in a paper titled "Single-molecule analysis reveals that IPMK enhances the DNA-binding activity of the transcription ...

A breakthrough assay is advancing how researchers observe gene expression in real time. Named QRIVTA (quantitative real-time ...