The influenza virus manipulates the body's gene regulation system to accelerate its own spread, according to researchers at ...

The influenza virus manipulates the body’s gene regulation system to accelerate its own spread, according to researchers at ...

At MIT, one genome researcher is testing a different approach. Bin Zhang, associate professor of chemistry and the leader of ...

One hypothesis is that the DNA loops could determine which genes are switched on in the cell. Inside a nucleus, chromosomes jumble together like a game of Twister. This can bring regulatory elements, ...

Viruses are known to use the genetic machinery of the human cells they invade to make copies of themselves. As part of the ...

If the protein TDP-43 is defective inside a nerve cell it can form neurotoxic aggregates, which are the cause of the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Nerve cells are also ...

While AGO2 usually works outside the cell nucleus, in conjunction with infection, the virus manages to move the protein into the nucleus, where it turns off genes that are key to the immune system.