Failure of a gene-reading quality-control mechanism called Integrator leaves cells littered with abnormal RNA strands that ...

At MIT, one genome researcher is testing a different approach. Bin Zhang, associate professor of chemistry and the leader of ...

May 5, 2025 — Muscle cells contain their own circadian clocks and disrupting them with shift work can have a profound impact on aging, according to new ... New Molecular Label Could Lead to ...

Genetic variation and 3D chromatin structure have ... that one-third of ASE genes, including histone genes, is regulated through Polycomb repression. Our work reveals highly distinct 3D folding ...

A new study in Cell reveals that lamina-associated domains (LADs) in early mouse embryos are shaped by dynamic epigenetic ...

May 5, 2025 — Chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the world's deadliest pathogen. This labeling could lead to simpler ...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the United States, except for skin cancers. It accounts for about 30% (or 1 in 3) of all new female cancers each year. The American Cancer Society's ...

A new study in the journal Nature Climate Change shows that the richest ten percent of the world's population is responsible for two-thirds of the global warming observed since 1990 and the associated ...

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