The epigenetic state of chromatin, gene activity, and chromosomal positions are interrelated. A research team from the IPK ...

NAD, a vital molecule for cellular energy and DNA repair, plays a central role in aging and diseases like cancer and ...

Although it is currently not possible to synthetically recreate humans, plants, or animals from genetic data, there has been ...

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has named Fred Hutch Cancer Center postdoctoral researcher Grant King, PhD, a Hanna H.

This is a useful study that seeks to address the role of the TET family of DNA demethylation enzymes in pancreatic beta cell senescence in the context of type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Although the concepts ...

Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are ...

The targeting of telomeres offers promise for new cancer therapies, which can be aimed at disrupting the mechanisms that ...

Huntington’s is an incurable and fatal genetic condition that progressively affects movement, balance and cognition. It is ...

This important study reveals a role for IκBα in the regulation of embryonic stem cell pluripotency. The solid data in mouse embryonic stem cells include separation of function mutations in IκBα to ...

Our genes are contained in our DNA which is present in the nucleus (inner area ... called mitochondria which are present in the cytoplasm of the cell.) We each have 46 chromosomes making up our DNA, ...

although safely ensconced within the cell’s nucleus, are far from stable. A piece of genetic code from another chromosome, or even from a virus, can embed itself into the DNA chain, changing how ...

Since all cells in the body share the same complete genome, including the CREB gene, and this protein is also present in tissues with different functions, Kukushkin and his team decided to investigate ...