New research reveals that a fundamental process in bacterial gene regulation called sigma cycle, long thought to involve the release of a key protein, sigma factor, might not be universal, opening new ...

Iridoids are a widespread and evolutionarily ancient class of plant secondary metabolites belonging to the terpenes. They ...

A study led by Vincenzo Condello and Christofer Juhlin of the Karolinska Institutet explores why some papillary thyroid ...

Diseases that affect the retina, the light-sensitive layer at the back of the eye, are a significant cause of visual impairment and blindness. Gene therapy holds promise for treating some of these ...

SynGenSys, a biotechnology company designing synthetic gene promoter systems to address critical bottlenecks in biopharma ...

At first glance, plants may seem passive – but beneath their stillness lies a world of complexity and constant activity.

Mice and newts were applied to the one-step Cre-loxP organism creation technology by TAx9. In this study, the researchers succeeded in synthesizing a Cre-loxP integrated vector by placing a short DNA ...