Two fundamental mechanisms of gene regulation involve transcription factors and microRNAs, a large class of small, non-coding RNAs. It is widely believed that phenotypic evolution is closely ...

An international team of researchers has taken an important step toward understanding how gene expression is controlled ...

How would you make transcription and translation work when you no longer have a nucleus? Bacteria have an interesting answer. Attenuation, or dampening, of the trp operon is made possible by the ...

The genome contains tens of thousands of genes. Like a gigantic orchestra, their interaction is the basis for all vital ...

A groundbreaking study in Nature Genetics, led by Martin Fischer, laboratory head, and Steve Hoffmann, research group leader ...

"Each gene was like a single word. However, there was a piece of critical information lacking: transcription initiation sites for individual genes." Transcription initiation sites are locations in ...

Transcription factors are the master regulators of gene expression and are therefore highly sought after by scientists. Plant scientists can use transcription factors to target desirable traits in new ...

This process of protein synthesis occurs in two stages - transcription and translation. When a gene is to be expressed, the base sequence of DNA is copied or transcribed into mRNA (messenger RNA).

Transcription factors are the master regulators of gene expression and are therefore highly sought after by scientists. Plant scientists can use transcription factors to target desirable traits in ...