Latest News for: gene transcription

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In a first, scientists develop drug candidates to target ‘untreatable’ cancer protein

Interesting Engineering 28 Mar 2025
Transcription factors are proteins that serve as master regulators of gene expression ... For the Transcription Block Survival (TBS) assay, researchers placed special landing spots for the cJun protein inside an important gene in lab-grown cells.
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Cashew plant leftovers are very good at inhibiting fat cell growth

New Atlas 27 Mar 2025
Transcription factors are proteins that act like switches to control when and how genes are turned on and off in a cell ... adipogenic transcription factors and adipocyte markers,” the researchers said.
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New function discovered for protein important in leukemia

Science Daily 20 Mar 2025
In addition to exporting materials out of the nucleus, the protein, called Exportin-1 (also called Xpo1 or Crm1), seems to play a role in promoting gene transcription, the process that creates RNA replicas of strands of DNA to express genes ... .
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How light and epigenetics cooperate to regulate plant growth

Phys Dot Org 19 Mar 2025
... factors in regulating light-responsive genes in plants.
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NEET UG 2025: Syllabus and answers to FAQs for Biology

Hindustan Times 16 Mar 2025
Search for genetic material and DNA as genetic material; Structure of DNA and RNA; DNA packaging; DNA replication; Central dogma; Transcription, genetic code, translation; Gene expression and ...
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Directly converting skin cells to brain cells yields 1,000% success

New Atlas 14 Mar 2025
The original process involved a set of four genes that code for proteins called transcription factors ... Using a second virus, the team delivered two other genes that cause the cells to start proliferating first.
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US supercomputer with 200,000 trillion moves per second shows how DNA repairs itself

Interesting Engineering 14 Mar 2025
Research team used NAMD ... Now, their work on Frontier will involve examining transcription-coupled NER, which is a DNA repair process that fixes damage in actively transcribed genes to ensure that essential proteins can continue being made ... .
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MIT scientists convert skin cells into neurons, could transform brain, spinal cord repair

Interesting Engineering 13 Mar 2025
By using just three transcription factors, along with two other genes that assist in proliferation, they were able to turn mouse skin cells into motor neurons ... Efficient gene delivery for maximum neuron production.
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A Tale of How TALENs Launched the Genome Editing Revolution

The Scientist 12 Mar 2025
... a transcriptional activation domain, and a domain with multiple, mostly repetitive blocks of 33-35 amino acids, today called the repeat-variable diresidues (RVDs), that promoted gene expression.3-6.
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Scientists shed new light on the shared genetic basis of psychiatric disorders

PsyPost 08 Mar 2025
These pleiotropic genetic variations often influence the activity of key regulatory proteins called transcription factors, which control the activity of many genes ... Rather, it’s the interconnection of genes.
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