Yukiko Shimada, Fabio Mohn, and Marc Bühler at the FMI elucidated an important mechanistic detail of small RNA mediated chromatin silencing. They showed in fission yeast that the small RNA in the RNA induced silencing complex ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 22, 2016
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Fleshy fruits are an important part of the human diet. They provide vitamins, carotenoids, flavonoids and other health-promoting nutrients. Because most of the fruit nutritional and sensory quality traits are determined at ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 9, 2022
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Transcription of genetic information is a fundamental process for life. If it does not work correctly, the consequences for the organism range from lethality to defects during development, genetic diseases, insufficient response ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 4, 2020
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National Institutes of Health researchers have discovered a specific network of proteins that is necessary to restore hearing in zebrafish through cell regeneration. The study, led by investigators at the National Human Genome ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 14, 2022
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Seeds remain in a dormant state, waiting for the right environmental conditions to germinate, thus increasing the probability of fragile seedling survival. The transition from a dry seed to a vegetative seedling is an irreversible ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 20, 2024
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An international collaboration between two Danish and two German teams has delineated that the so-called "Arsenite resistance 2 (ARS2)" protein is capable of inducing early transcription termination by recruiting the termination ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 21, 2023
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DNA is a blueprint for cells to make proteins that allow those cells to function properly. To create the proteins, enzymes copy genetic codes from DNA strands and then transfer the instructions onto RNA in a process called ...
Biotechnology
Apr 24, 2018
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High-throughput RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) is widely used to profile global cellular gene expression and gain insights into cellular biological processes; however, effectively tracking dynamic changes in cellular mRNA expression ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 21, 2023
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Single-celled plankton known as dinoflagellates are shown to cope with stress using an unexpected strategy of editing their RNA rather than changing gene expression levels.
Biotechnology
Apr 17, 2017
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Similar to the way expanding companies increase their work forces, cells must boost their production of internal biomolecules when they grow in size in order to stay healthy. In the 1970s, biologists showed that this scaled-up ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 29, 2024
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