This article examines some of the cell-based approaches that researchers are using to study acquired drug resistance and the ...

Cell culture plates in the Roeder lab where scientists recently studied gene expression in breast cancer. (Credit: Lori ...

Multicellular cyanobacteria do something strikingly sophisticated with their DNA, toggling key genes on and off as day turns ...

Protection of Genetic Material: The nuclear envelope shields the DNA from the mechanical and chemical stresses of the ...

The enzyme that drives the intricate process of transcription is known as RNA polymerase. This molecular machine is the ...

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

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their ...

Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, United States ...

A multi-level assessment of the relevance of 18 highly conserved neural zebrafish microexons showed that individual deletions of most microexons did not exhibit strong phenotypes, likely because of ...

How is it that your body with all of its specialized organs developed from a single cell? Scientists are exploring how gene expression patterns and their timing regulate cell differentiation. Today, ...