Cell function is determined by how DNA is expressed into proteins. That process includes two main steps—transcription, when ...

Genes undergo extensive editing through a process called alternative splicing, which greatly increases the size of the ...

The correct functioning of cells relies heavily on the ability to finely control gene expression, a complex process by which the information contained in DNA is copied into RNA to eventually give rise ...

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 ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that little-studied DNA structures play a central role in organizing the human genome and controlling gene activity, according to a new study published ...

People who vape regularly show altered activity in 3,124 genes across the genome compared with people who do not smoke or vape. While some of those changes (28.8%) relate to how often or how much ...

A team led by Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University investigators has created a faster, cheaper way to determine the genes ...