Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

A study reveals how the essential red blood cell transcription factor KLF1 recognizes DNA. Using precise measurements in test ...

As animals and people age, there are changes in the genome. Telomeres, the protective ends of chromosomes, get shorter as cells continue to divide; some cells will pick up mutations in their genomes ...

RNA Polymerase (shown in blue) moves across a template strand of DNA (shown in purple) and transcribes it into RNA (shown in red). But DNA damage blocks the RNA polymerase, causing it to stall and ...

Researchers have identified a stress-activated control mechanism that helps breast cancer cells reshape gene activity to ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have invented a new single-cell nascent RNA sequencing technique that lets them observe the timing of gene and enhancer activation in ...

Researchers have discovered new regions of the human genome particularly vulnerable to mutations. These altered stretches of ...

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Researchers have discovered that in thale cresses histone H3 lysine-9 (H3K9) methylation, conventionally thought to be a mark of turning off gene transcription, can also turn on gene expression via ...