Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism by which a brain enzyme called OTULIN controls the expression of tau, the protein that forms toxic tangles in Alzheimer's disease. The findings, ...

The function of non-coding RNA in the cell has long been a mystery to researchers. Unlike coding RNA, non-coding RNA does not produce proteins -- yet it exists in large quantities. A research team has ...

Epigenetics is the study of various heritable alterations that control gene expression without changing the DNA sequence. 1 The name epigenetics comes from the Greek prefix “epi”, which means on top ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have shown that DNA inflexibility, or rigidity, inside the nucleosome regulates the positioning of INO80. This highlights that the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The novel gene therapy SPK-8011 induced sustained factor VIII expression in patients with hemophilia A, ...

A new study analyzes the health effects of participants who drank orange juice daily. The findings showed improved blood ...