Scientists discovered that ancient viral DNA sequences called MER11, once dismissed as genetic junk, actually act as ...

The National Natural Science Foundation Project of China (No. 82271078) Youth Beijing Scholar (No.076) Beijing Municipal ...

A team that includes Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists has unlocked some of the secrets of corn DNA, revealing how ...

A new international study suggests that ancient viral DNA embedded in our genome, which were long dismissed as genetic "junk" ...

Transcription factors are proteins involved in the process of converting, or transcribing, DNA into RNA. Transcription factors include a wide number of proteins, excluding RNA polymerase, that ...

A research team uncovers a crucial molecular pathway by which sucrose, long known as a key energy source, also acts as a ...

Transcription factors can increase and decrease gene expression, and sometimes work with protein partners to do so; they tend to have an end that can bind to DNA and another end that can attach to ...

Scientists have created a more efficient and controlled way to produce lab-grown inner ear hair cells than current methods ...

T-bet is a transcription factor, one of the control proteins in the cell nucleus that can turn specific groups of genes on ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying transcription, the process of converting genetic information in DNA into ...

Three transcription factors -- proteins that direct gene expression -- interact with each other and the genome to influence how a heart forms in an embryo, scientists have discovered. Without ...

Lindsey Knight’s fascination with scientific research began at a young age. As a 9-year-old, she participated in a science ...