Turn out the light: 'Switch' determines cancer cell fate
(Phys.org) —Like picking a career or a movie, cells have to make decisions – and cancer results from cells making wrong decisions.
May 03, 2013
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It slices, it dices, it silences: ADAR1 as gene-silencing modular RNA multitool
RNA, once considered a bit player in the grand scheme by which genes encode protein, is increasingly seen to have a major role in human genetics. In a study presented in the April 25 issue of the journal Cell, researchers from T ...
May 01, 2013
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Pushing the boundaries of transcription: A new level of variation in messenger RNAs exposed
(Phys.org) —Like musicians in an orchestra who have the same musical score but start and finish playing at different intervals, cells with the same genes start and finish transcribing them at different ...
Apr 25, 2013
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This spot on Mercury (almost) never goes dark
Mercury, traveling in its 88-day-long orbit around the Sun with basically zero axial tilt, has many craters at its poles whose insides literally never see the light of day. These permanently-shadowed locations ...
Apr 26, 2013
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NASA sees three coronal mass ejections in two days
On April 20, 2013, at 2:54 a.m. EDT, the sun erupted with a coronal mass ejection (CME), a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can affect electronic systems ...
Apr 22, 2013
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