An international team of scientists has discovered that tiny changes in the timing of the expression of a single gene can ...

Gene regulation underpins nearly every biological process—from cell development to responses to environmental changes, and ...

The ability to control gene expression across a wide range is crucial for many fields, including bioengineering, disease ...

Despite their carnivorous digestive systems, giant pandas thrive on bamboo, and now scientists may have uncovered a key ...

The lab of Filippo Veglia, Ph.D., at The Wistar Institute has discovered a previously unknown mechanism for how aggressive ...

Epigenetics is the study of various heritable alterations that control gene expression without changing the DNA sequence. 1 The name epigenetics comes from the Greek prefix “epi”, which means on top ...

Rice University’s Anna-Karin Gustavsson has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to advance her ...

The study focused on splicing – one of the key levels of control in the gene expression process. Splicing, as the name suggests, is a process by which molecular machines in the cell 'cut and ...

A study published in BMC Biology reveals how tiny changes in the expression of a single gene can lead to big differences in ...

A new computational tool allows researchers to understand how the diverse cell types of the human body are made during ...

We're part of an international team of scientists which has discovered that tiny changes in the timing of the expression of a ...

Gene regulation underpins nearly every biological process—from cell development to responses to environmental changes, and ...