A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

The human genome contains approximately 1,600 types of transcription factors responsible for regulating gene activity across ...

Tuberculosis is both curable and preventable, yet each year, it still kills more people than any other infectious disease.

UC San Diego researchers uncover enzyme behind cancer genome chaos, pointing to potential therapies for aggressive tumors.

Internal body clocks, vital for sleep & health, are linked to DNA repair. Research shows a protein, 6–4phr, manages both DNA ...

RFdiffusion2, RFdiffusion3, and Riff-Diff each solve different structural problems in computational enzyme design ...

A recent study on DNA microarray technology highlights its essential role in enabling high-throughput analysis of large numbers of genes through arrays of ...

Institute of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, United States ...

The DNA inside our cells is constantly being damaged, and one of the worst kinds of damage is a double-strand break-when both sides of the DNA helix are cut at once.

Nobel laureate David Baker’s latest foundation model can design proteins that interact to any biomolecule for broad biotech applications.

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing RNA in eukaryotic cells and eventually giving rise to proteins. Scientists ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have shown that DNA inflexibility, or rigidity, inside the nucleosome regulates the positioning of INO80. This highlights that the ...