Computational prediction of gene structure is crucial for interpreting genomic sequences. But how do the algorithms involved work and how accurate are they? Expression-based systems that use only ...

The question “What is a gene?” has bothered geneticists for fifty years. Recent work with a small bacterial virus has shown how to split the gene and make detailed maps of its internal structure ...

The image highlights the start and stop codons that mark the beginning and end of the gene, respectively. The different colored bases (adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine) represent the genetic ...

Transposons, also known as jumping genes or mobile genetic elements as they can replicate and reinsert themselves in the ...

Ionising radiation includes gamma rays, X-rays and ultraviolet rays. The greater the dose of radiation a cell gets, the greater the chance of a mutation. Mutations could cause different genes to ...

The physical structure of corn plants - including the angle of leaves bending from the stem and the number of pollen-laden tassel branches - makes a ...

It is this carefully controlled pattern of what is called "gene expression" that makes a liver cell different from a muscle cell, and a healthy cell different from a cancer cell. But how can ...

In  a  paper  published  on  aBIOTECH,  the  authors  revealed  the  joint  regulation  of  chromatin structure and gene expression by BMI1s, the core components of Arabidopsis PRC1, and the condensin ...

Sequences within each gene's repetitive region—its TIGR arrays ... They have determined the molecular structure of one of the Tas proteins they found to work in human cells, and will use ...

Researchers from the NIHR Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre and University College London have found that gene therapy improved visual acuity and preserved retinal structure in young children ...