Researchers from the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência have now discovered a novel genetic mechanism that protects plants from toxic zinc levels.
Biotechnology
May 15, 2014
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A cell is a complex environment in which substances (metabolites) must maintain a correct state of equilibrium, which may vary depending on specific needs. Cells can maintain the proper concentrations of metabolites by regulating ...
Biotechnology
Nov 4, 2013
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For 10 years, Patrick Cramer and his colleagues at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have probed the structure of RNA polymerase I, a crucial cog in the machinery of all cells. Now they unveil the full three-dimensional ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 24, 2013
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Certain diseases such as cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy are linked to genetic mutations that damage the important biological process of rearranging gene sequences in pre-messenger RNA, a procedure called RNA splicing.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 26, 2013
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From the lab to the computer: Scientists from the University of Freiburg have developed a computer program to predict the functions of bacterial gene regulators. This online software which is called CopraRNA could save researchers ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 30, 2013
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New research results from Uppsala University, Sweden, show that the key to treating neurodegenerative prion diseases such as mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease may lie in the ribosome, the protein synthesis machinery ...
Biochemistry
Jul 2, 2013
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Circular RNAs were recently shown to be abundant in mice and humans where they influence gene expression.
Biochemistry
May 22, 2013
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Many genes are transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules that provide instructions for protein synthesis. Other genes encode regulatory RNAs known as 'microRNAs', which can block protein translation by binding to specific ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 22, 2013
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Histones—proteins that package DNA—affect cell function differently than previously assumed: the cell doesn't need the histone H3.3 to read genes. Molecular biologists from the University of Zurich demonstrate that fruit ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 13, 2012
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Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Vienna have revealed for the first time a stress-induced machinery of protein synthesis that is involved in bringing about cell death in bacteria.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 30, 2011
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