When the molecular machinery in our cells gets to work transcribing the genetic information encoded in DNA into messenger RNA (mRNA), it pauses shortly after starting. Known as promoter-proximal ...

Scientists at Penn State University will reveal in the 29 March 2007 issue of the journal Nature the first complete high-resolution map of important structures that control how genes are packaged and ...

News Many Bacteria and Archaea Promoters Work Forward and Backward New analyses find that divergent transcription, in which one promoter directs the expression of two adjacent genes oriented in ...

Floral scent is a defining trait for many ornamental plants, yet the genetic logic behind fragrance production often remains ...

Although visible signs of aging are usually unmistakable, unraveling what triggers them has been quite a challenge. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have ...

Rice University researchers have demonstrated that CRISPR-Cas9, increasingly famous as a gene-editing tool, can be employed in powerful additional ways in human cells. A team led by Rice bioengineer ...

Yeast is a single cell eukaryotic organism, that incites in this Irish scientist an intense memory of the smell of brewing Guinness, wafting down the River Liffey on a drizzly Dublin day as I sit at ...

Researchers have discovered that a cellular phenomenon called cryptic transcription, which had been previously described and linked to aging in yeasts and worms, is also involved in mammalian aging.