cells, tissues, and organs differ because they have certain sets of genes that are "turned on" or expressed, as well as other sets that are "turned off" or inhibited. Epigenetic silencing is one ...

From the myth of multitasking to ‘attention contagion,’ high school teacher Blake Harvard hopes to arm educators with the ...

Additionally, siRNAs induce gene silencing by guiding histone and DNA methylation ... Using RNAi, researchers have successfully performed gene knockdown in a variety of organisms and cells, including ...

In trials at University College London Hospitals (UCLH), an ASO is being used to target the mutated gene that results in the ...

In July of 2018, the French government passed a law banning cellphones in schools. The question of whether cell phones should be allowed in U.S. schools has sparked intense debate across the ...

Once embedded in the cell's machinery, these RNA-making molecules ... there was a critical catch: in addition to silencing the harmful gene, the treatment also shut down the healthy version ...

Members of a new family of proteins that are involved in RNA silencing mediated by small ... regulated by an AU-rich element in serum-starved cells 65. It might seem strange that miRNA-loaded ...

A mouse with no biological mother has survived to adulthood in China – a major scientific achievement that's been years in ...

Now, researchers from SLU and the James Hutton Institute have for the first time investigated how spray-induced gene silencing affects other microorganisms. Fusarium head blight is a major disease ...

Akribion Therapeutics emerges from stealth with €8 million in seed funding to develop a novel cancer RNA-guided approach ...

In proximal colon stem cells, silencing CDX2 allowed BRAF mutations to drive tumor initiation in the stem cells, whereas in the distal colon, silencing CDX2 did not yield much change. The work ...