Transcription factors are an essential part of gene expression. Some of these proteins are known as master regulators, and they can have an impact on many different biochemical pathways and processes ...

Our DNA contains thousands of genes, and it is critical that the correct genes are expressed in the right places at the proper time. Our cells have a variety of ways to control gene expression, one of ...

DNA, the long polymer curled up inside our cells, is often described as the instructions for life. But those instructions are stored in DNA’s chemical code, and reading that code requires the ...

Synthetic biology is in the midst of branching out from bacterial to eukaryotic systems. With the increased complexity of the eukaryotic cell come new challenges, but more importantly new ...

Transcription factors are master regulators of gene expression, guiding the programmes that control cell growth, differentiation and stress responses. In cancer biology, the dynamic interplay of ...

Bacterial transcription is a production line of copying over genetic instructions from double stranded DNA to produce RNA, which is then used for the subsequent production of proteins that the ...

Some things just go together like “rock and roll” and “fish and chips” or, in molecular biology, “transcription factors” and the “nearby genes they regulate.” The standard, simplified story goes like ...

All living things have a fleet of tiny copy machines that turn instructions from DNA into RNA molecules responsible for helping build proteins that keep organisms alive. One of those nanoscale ...

During viral reproduction, the influenza polymerase (top left, in blue) scans along the ribonucleoprotein helix to produce messenger RNA. Credit: Science Like a camera-shy teenager, influenza’s ...