Although visible signs of aging are usually unmistakable, unraveling what triggers them has been quite a challenge. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have ...

Bacteria need to constantly adapt to compete against other species for nutrient sources and to survive against threats such as antibiotics and toxins. In an effort to understand how bacteria control ...

Francesco Neri, a molecular biologist at the University of Turin in Italy who was not involved with the work, tells The Scientist in an email that he speculates these transcripts could serve as ...

A newly developed mouse model enables real-time visualization of RNA Polymerase II (RNAP2) during DNA transcription, as ...

Transcription factors control how cells work because they activate specific genes to produce proteins. If used as drugs, the factors could be equally powerful by boosting underperforming cellular ...

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 ...

Activating Transcription Factor 5 (ATF5) is a member of the ATF/CREB family of transcription factors and plays a pivotal role in managing cell stress responses, differentiation and survival. Its ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have shown that DNA inflexibility, or rigidity, inside the ...

A molecular switch in breast cancer cells reprograms the genetic production line towards tumor growth and stress resistance.

A cell protein previously believed only to provide a scaffolding for DNA has also been shown to directly influence DNA transcription into RNA – the first step of the process by which an organism's ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . One of the major complaints of clinicians who treat patients with chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies is ...