In frontotemporal dementia, degeneration of neurons in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain leads to impairments in ...

A study by the University of Eastern Finland revealed for the first time clear differences in the function and gene ...

Cell function is determined by how DNA is expressed into proteins. That process includes two main steps - transcription, when messenger RNA (mRNA) makes copies of active genes, and translation, when ...

Long-term GLP-1 exposure drives phosphorylation of a key protein, resulting in massive changes in gene expression and partial ...

DNA methylation is a key epigenome component that helps dictate how genes are expressed, contributing to normal cell and tissue differentiation during development, as well as the process of biological ...

Essentially all cells in an organism's body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are actively expressed at any given time in a cell determines what type of cell it ...

What if a cup of coffee could help treat cancer? Researchers at the Texas A&M Health Institute of Biosciences and Technology believe it's possible. By combining caffeine with the use of CRISPR—a ...