Scientists at IOCB Prague are uncovering new details of gene transcription. They have identified a previously unknown ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1957, just four years after Francis Crick and other scientists solved the riddle of DNA’s structure—the now famous double helix ...

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 ...

When the molecular machinery in our cells gets to work transcribing the genetic information encoded in DNA into messenger RNA (mRNA), it pauses shortly after starting. Known as promoter-proximal ...

DNA can be thought of as a vast library that stores all genetic information. Cells do not use this information all at once.

Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...

Researchers from The University of Osaka reveal that genetic changes following the loss of heterochromatin can lead to ...

The field of cancer epigenetics examines how heritable changes in gene regulation - independent of DNA sequence - impact ...