With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

Researchers have identified a stress-activated control mechanism that helps breast cancer cells reshape gene activity to ...

Transcription factors are an essential part of gene expression. Some of these proteins are known as master regulators, and they can have an impact on many different biochemical pathways and processes ...

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

Scientists used the auxin-inducible degron 2 system on CTCF, bringing the novel approach to bear on a fundamental protein. CTCF is a critical protein known to play various roles in key biological ...

Our DNA contains thousands of genes, and it is critical that the correct genes are expressed in the right places at the proper time. Our cells have a variety of ways to control gene expression, one of ...

Bacterial transcription is a production line of copying over genetic instructions from double stranded DNA to produce RNA, which is then used for the subsequent production of proteins that the ...

Cells are regularly faced with environmental stresses that may damage or destroy them. To survive, they quickly adjust their ...

For about a dozen years, synthetic biologists have been working on ways to design genetic circuits to perform novel functions such as manufacturing new drugs, producing fuel or even programming the ...

Eukaryotic transcription is a complicated business. The regulation of gene expression is fundamental to cell survival and its study forms the basis of numerous research programmes. Recent discoveries ...

(Memphis, Tenn.—January 25, 2023) CTCF is a critical protein known to play various roles in key biological processes such as transcription. Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital used a ...