An error in a gene, a mutation, can cause a disease, but the relationship between the genome of an organism and its physical characteristics, and exactly how genetic ...

CTCF is a critical protein known to play various roles in key biological processes such as transcription. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have used a next-generation protein ...

Eukaryotic transcription is a complicated business. The regulation of gene expression is fundamental to cell survival and its study forms the basis of numerous research programmes. Recent discoveries ...

DNA, the long polymer curled up inside our cells, is often described as the instructions for life. But those instructions are stored in DNA’s chemical code, and reading that code requires the ...

Scientists used the auxin-inducible degron 2 system on CTCF, bringing the novel approach to bear on a fundamental protein. CTCF is a critical protein known to play various roles in key biological ...