A new study published in Biochemistry sheds light on how bacteria regulate their genes, challenging long-held assumptions ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the ...

The model calculations in the present study show that proteins are therefore preferably synthesized in the branched, tapering ...

Scientists have discovered that a crucial protein found in plants, called auxin response factor (ARF) first arose about 600 ...

The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out ...

The discovery of a family with sequence similarity 102 member A (Fam102a) protein as a novel bone remodeling factor that regulates both osteoclast and osteoblast differentiation can aid the ...

In a novel theory, scientists at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute propose a unifying explanation for the ...

Gaining control of the genetic blueprint of life has been something that comic book and science fiction writers have dreamed ...

New research has investigated the mechanism by which bivalency functions to poise genes for expression during cell differentiation, providing insight into a long-standing paradigm in the regulation of ...

In this study, we identified homologous gene members of the TGF-β subfamily in lampreys at the genome-wide level and analyzed the molecular evolutionary features of the family at the gene and protein ...

The gene expression profile ... focus to identifying the underlying molecular interactions that drive the bone remodeling process. They found that Fam102a protein enhanced osteoblast ...