Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

If our genes are so similar, what really makes a eukaryote different from a prokaryote, or a human from E. coli? The answer lies in the difference in gene expression and regulation used. Regulation of ...

There has been an endless “war” between pathogen organisms armed with the ability to establish new, genetically based ...

A mission to search for the origin-of-life on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, will be aided by University of Otago – Ōtākou ...

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...

Early-stage lung adenocarcinoma alters DNA methylation, mRNA transcription, and protein expression in adjacent tissues, exhibiting either steep changes at the tumor boundaries or shallow changes ...

Most current approaches rely on adding nuclear localization signal (NLS) motifs to the ends of Cas9 to facilitate nuclear entry. However, this method is inefficient, and much of the Cas9 that is ...

Gene Simmons is giving his worried fans a relieving health update. The Kiss co-founder has addressed the scary car crash in Malibu, California, that left him temporarily hospitalized earlier this week ...

State Key Laboratory for Quality and Safety of Agro-Products, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MARA, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Green Plant Protection, Institute of Plant ...