Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how molecular "traffic controllers" in cells influence aging and cellular ...

AI maps fleeting DNA quadruplexes, revealing paired structures that control genes in healthy cells and cancer.

In biology classrooms, we often learn that genes are transcribed into mRNA, which is then translated into proteins—a tidy, linear process. But gene expression in living cells is far more intricate, ...

Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...

New research suggests that alternative splicing may have an even greater influence on biology than just by creating new protein isoforms. The study shows that the biggest impact of alternative ...

A research team has identified the core gene expression networks regulated by key proteins that fundamentally drive phenomena such as cancer development, metastasis, tissue differentiation from stem ...

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 ...

Epigenome editing has followed a similar path, in that more recent technological breakthroughs have enabled scientists to apply the discoveries made in previous decades. Epigenome editing performs a ...

Learn how mapping gene-control switches in an ancient sea anemone reveals how identical DNA can produce many different cell types.