News tagged with regulation of gene expression

Transcriptional elongation control takes on new dimensions

Life is complicated enough, so you can forgive the pioneers of DNA biology for glossing over transcriptional elongation control by RNA polymerase II, the quick and seemingly bulletproof penultimate step in ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sequencing platform provides powerful tool for identifying subtle changes in gene expression

In a truly challenging task, the FANTOM5 Consortium, an international collaboration headed by scientists at the RIKEN Omics Science Center in Yokohama, Japan, is striving to profile the regulation of gene ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Conserved gene expression reveals our 'inner fish'

A study of gene expression in chickens, frogs, pufferfish, mice and people has revealed surprising similarities in several key tissues. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Biology have shown that e ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study identifies new gene associated with ALS

A collaborative research effort spanning nearly a decade between researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and King’s College London (KCL) has identified a novel gene for inherited amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0