In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex ...

This study is the first to demonstrate that certain tRNA introns influence gene expression. Scientists have discovered that ...

Stanford Medicine researchers sifted through thousands of single nucleotide mutations in DNA to identify fewer than 400 that are functionally associated with inherited cancer risk.

Torsional stress in chromatin plays a fundamental role in cellular functions, influencing key processes such as transcription, replication, and chromatin organization. Transcription and other ...

Thousands of single changes in the nucleotides that make up the human genome have been associated with an increased risk of ...

Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have linked genetic variants to neuropsychiatric disorders, but their regulatory roles in non-coding regions remain largely unclear. Using the LUHMES neuronal ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists from Karolinska Institutet discovered that water molecules are crucial in helping transcription factors, proteins that regulate gene activity, read the human ...

In a study published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, scientists from the Department of Medical Biochemistry and ...

The CRISPR-Cas9 system offers groundbreaking genome editing capabilities, yet off-target cleavage raises concerns about ...

Researchers have created a novel imaging-technology combination that can capture gene activity in individual bacteria in ...

Oxytocin receptor (Oxtr) signaling influences complex social behaviors in diverse species, including social monogamy in prairie voles. How Oxtr regulates specific components of social attachment ...

Using a new technology and computational method, researchers from Fred Hutch Cancer Center and The University of Texas MD ...