Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

Understanding how cells turn genes on and off is one of biology's most enduring mysteries. Now, a new technology developed by chemist Brian Liau and his collaborators at Harvard offers an ...

We have written about the promise of gene therapy to correct genetic disease many times. An exciting development happened ...

“This is the first detailed study of how and where ORC regulates epigenetics and gene expression in human cells,” said Anindya Dutta, Ph.D., leader of the study and chair of the University of Alabama ...

To function properly, the genetic material is highly organized into loop structures that often bring together widely separated sections of the genome critical to the regulation of gene activity.

Sections of DNA once dismissed as dormant and useless could in fact be recruited to fight certain types of drug-resistant ...

Researchers at Ulm University Hospital discovered that mutations in the brain’s MC4R gene, which cause obesity, also lower ...

This study, led by Dr. Panpan Jiang and collaborators at Tongji Medical College, explores the critical role of the Dedicator of Cytokinesis 8 (DOCK8) gene in the differentiation of helper T cells, ...

Pancreas development in pigs resembles humans much more closely than does the established mouse model. An international team ...

A team led by UC Davis poultry scientist Huaijun Zhou has created the first comprehensive map of gene regulation in breeds of chickens. The map could be a resource for finding resistance to H5N1 ...