These cell proteins, called transcription factors, help determine which DNA sequences should be transcribed and precisely when the transcription process should occur. Once RNA polymerase and its ...

If DNA is a book, then how is it read? Learn more about the DNA transcription process, where DNA is converted to RNA, a more portable set of instructions for the cell. The process of transcription ...

A new method for mapping torsion provides insights into the ways that the genome responds to the torsion generated by RNA polymerase II.

Ring-shaped extrachromosomal DNA is implicated in many cancers. Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to uncover their ...

Transcription is the process by which the genetic information in DNA is copied into a complementary RNA strand. RNA polymerase enzymes read the DNA sequence and synthesize messenger RNA (mRNA) ...

Researchers from Northwestern University have stumbled upon a previously unobserved function of a protein found in the cell ...

to specify the amino acid sequence of proteins. The complementary nature of base pairing allows for the accurate replication of DNA during cell division and the transcription of DNA into RNA for ...

This process of protein synthesis occurs in two stages - transcription and translation. When a gene is to be expressed, the base sequence of DNA is copied or transcribed into mRNA (messenger RNA).

Transcription initiation begins with the binding of RNA polymerase, a multi-subunit enzyme, to a specific DNA sequence called the promoter region. Prokaryotic promoters typically contain a Pribnow ...

This important study offers a molecular characterization of neurons and glia in the adult nervous system of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The study focuses on the progeny of a specific set of ...

As they had suspected, an EBV protein called ENBA2 appears to consistently attach itself to human DNA near lupus risk ...

With the long-term goal of creating living cells from non-living components, scientists in the field of synthetic biology work with RNA origami. This tool uses the multifunctionality of the natural ...