Arabidopsis thaliana is a small flowering weed that has served as the staple laboratory plant for decades. Arabidopsis tolerates experimental disruptions in epigenetic modifications better than human ...

Key Laboratory of Breeding Biotechnology and Sustainable Aquaculture, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China ...

A RIKEN researcher and his colleague have identified how genes are expressed in fish embryos when they first start using ...

However, the metabolic origin of the precursor phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP), which fuels anthocyanin biosynthesis in petals, has ...

Emerging evidence highlights the complex interplay between diet, genetic background, and metabolic regulation in liver ...

Scientists are genetically engineering microbes to withstand industrial conditions for biofuel production. Researchers found ...

Modulation of gene expression allows adaptation to environmental changes. Epigenetic mechanisms contribute to both acute and ...

Background Eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE) is a chronic allergic disease characterised by oesophageal epithelial remodelling, barrier dysfunction and inflammation. The transcription factor forkhead ...

Gliomas represent more than a quarter of all CNS tumors. Limited treatment options together with high mortality and disability rates constitute a significant burden on healthcare and the economy, ...

Scientists have successfully sequenced RNA belonging to a 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth. Not only do the findings shed light ...

Research will focus on the genome-wide identification of microexons to advance the knowledge on gene functions.