For decades, synthetic biologists have been developing gene circuits that can be transferred into cells for applications such as reprogramming a stem cell into a neuron or generating a protein that ...

By examining genomic variation more closely, scientists can now identify new disease connections with greater speed and accuracy. For centuries, scientists have recognized that certain illnesses can ...

Molecular biologists have long believed that the beginning of a gene launched the process of transcription—the process by ...

Scientists have long suspected connections between heredity and disease, dating back to Hippocrates, who observed certain ...

Regulation of gene expression; Nucleic acid - replication, transcription, splicing, translation and their regulatory mechanisms; Non-coding and micro RNA; RNA interference; DNA damage and repair.

A new tool greatly improves scientists’ ability to identify and study proteins that regulate gene activity in cells, ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Essentially all cells in an organism’s body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are actively expressed at any given time in a cell determines ...

Gene editing has made huge leaps in recent years, such as treating the congenital blood disorders sickle cell anemia and beta thalassemia, which can require lifelong blood transfusions. But scientists ...

Abstract: Experimental genomics involves a series of techniques and methodologies aimed at analysing the organization and behaviour of genes and genomes. Microarrays have a large number of nucleic ...

Humans and Neanderthals are virtually identical at the genetic level. Scientists are probing the differences to understand why we are here, and they aren’t. Scientists have a new clue in the long ...