A team of biologists has discovered how cells become different from each other during embryogenesis, a finding that offers new insights into genetic activity and has implications for better understanding the onset of disease ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 8, 2019
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IMP scientists from the lab of Alexander Stark show why certain activators—enhancers or cofactor proteins—activate specific promoters. The findings, which are now reported in the journal Nature, could have implications ...
Biotechnology
May 16, 2019
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It was long thought that DNA, together with the genes encoded in it, determined genetic destiny. But equally important is coordinating when genes are turned on and off. In fact, the regulation of gene expression defines life ...
Evolution
Sep 11, 2018
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While aging is familiar to all of us, exactly how it occurs on a molecular basis has been an area of intense study and interest. We take it for granted that different species age at different rates, yet we do not have a good ...
Biotechnology
Apr 30, 2018
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Using a simple analytical framework for random events within a predictable system, computational biologists have found a new way to accurately model certain forms of gene expression, including the body's 24-hour internal ...
Biotechnology
Feb 1, 2018
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Rice University scientists have created a toolkit for synthetic biologists who need to precisely tune the input and output levels of genetic circuits.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 11, 2018
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Studies of the genes involved in oil synthesis in microalgae allow scientists to use a gene promoter to increase algal production of triacylglycerols, which in turn enhances potential biofuel yields
Biotechnology
Sep 7, 2015
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Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and Stanford University in the USA, have shed new light on how the variations in our molecular make-up, such as gene expression, are controlled ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 20, 2015
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A team of University of Delaware researchers is opening wider the door for those who study the vast world of microbes. A paper published in Nature Communications on May 6 describes a new technique they developed for examining ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 7, 2015
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Duke researchers have developed a new method to precisely control when genes are turned on and active.
Biotechnology
Apr 6, 2015
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