Guoping Li, Ph.D., of the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the ...

Fragile X disorders include two distinct conditions: fragile X syndrome (the most common single-gene cause of developmental ...

A new study authored by Tripti Midha , Anatoly Kolomeisky and Oleg Igoshin and published in the Proceedings of the National ...

A breakthrough assay is advancing how researchers observe gene expression in real time. Named QRIVTA (quantitative real-time ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying transcription, the process of converting genetic information in DNA into ...

New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

The human transcriptome contains secondary RNA structures like RNA G-quadruplexes (rG4s) which regulate biological processes such as translation by ribosome stalling. Canonical rG4s, which are ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology ...

A cell protein previously believed only to provide a scaffolding for DNA has also been shown to directly influence DNA transcription into RNA – the first step of the process by which an organism ...

These non-canonical four-stranded DNA and RNA structures regulate most normative DNA and RNA-dependent processes, such as transcription, replication, and translation, as well as pathogenic mechanisms, ...

Epigenetics involves a series of biological processes that regulate chromatin-mediated DNA templates. 2 Cancer is a ...