Inside every cell, thousands of molecular signals collide, overlap, and compensate, obscuring the true drivers of gene ...

Studying gene expression in a cancer patient's cells can help clinical biologists understand the cancer's origin and predict ...

David Rand, a professor of natural history at Brown University, explains how studying mitochondria — the cell's energy producers — offers a useful way to understand complex gene-by-gene or ...

Much of the phenotypic variation that is observed within and between species is the result of differences in gene regulation: specifically when, where and how much the genes are expressed. Given the ...

Propagation of expression noise from mRNA to protein level is influenced by variation in availability of ribosomal machinery.

Plants are constantly exposed to a wide array of biotic and abiotic stresses in their natural environments, posing ...

New research suggests that alternative splicing may have an even greater influence on biology than just by creating new protein isoforms. The study shows that the biggest impact of alternative ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics—meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

The expression of genes has to be carefully regulated in cells; active genes give cells their identity and ability to function. Epigenetic features are just one way that cells control gene expression, ...

Chronic alcohol consumption profoundly alters gene expression in key brain regions involved in reward, impulse control, and decision-making, according to a study led by researchers at the Institute ...