News tagged with regulatory network

Study demonstrates cells can acquire new functions through transcriptional regulatory network

Researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) have successfully developed and demonstrated a new experimental technique for producing cells with specific functions through the artificial reconstruction of transcriptional ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers identify novel regulatory network within legumes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Three collaborating laboratories in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at the University of Delaware -- those of professors Blake Meyers, Janine Sherrier and Pamela J. Green -- recently ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gene regulatory networks in the bee brain linked to behavior

A new study reveals that distinct networks of genes in the honey bee brain contribute to specific behaviors, such as foraging or aggression, researchers report.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How plants put down roots

In the beginning is the fertilized egg cell. Following numerous cell divisions, it then develops into a complex organism with different organs and tissues. The largely unexplained process whereby the cells ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Regulatory network balances stem cell maintenance, differentiation

While much of the promise of stem cells springs from their ability to develop into any cell type in the body, the biological workings that control that maturation process are still largely unknown.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Technique finds gene regulatory sites without knowledge of regulators

A new statistical technique developed by researchers at the University of Illinois allows scientists to scan a genome for specific gene-regulatory regions without requiring prior knowledge of the relevant transcription factors. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Toward a systems biology map of iron metabolism

Scientists at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have taken the first steps toward constructing a ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers Unlock the Secrets of Gene Regulatory Networks

A quartet of studies by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) highlight a special feature on gene regulatory networks recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (P ...

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created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers help unlock the secrets of gene regulatory networks

A quartet of studies by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) highlight a special feature on gene regulatory networks recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) ...

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created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0