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Ready, go!

Just like orchestra musicians waiting for their cue, RNA polymerase II molecules are poised at the start site of many developmentally controlled genes, waiting for the "Go!"- signal to read their part of the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gene transcribing machine takes halting, backsliding trip along the DNA

(PhysOrg.com) -- The body's nanomachines that read our genes don't run as smoothly as previously thought, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, scientists.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Biologists find optimistic worms are ready for rapid recovery

For the tiny soil-dwelling nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, life is usually a situation of feast or famine. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have found that this worm has evolved a surprisingly ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Plant polymerases IV and V are special forms of Polymerase II

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's a little like finding out that Superman is actually Clark Kent. A team of biologists at Washington University in St. Louis has discovered that two vital cellular components, nuclear RNA ...

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created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Transcriptional elongation control takes on new dimensions

Life is complicated enough, so you can forgive the pioneers of DNA biology for glossing over transcriptional elongation control by RNA polymerase II, the quick and seemingly bulletproof penultimate step in ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cell-specific mechanism-based gene therapy approach to treat retinitis pigmentosa

In a paper published in the October 2011 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine, a team of researchers at Columbia University Medical Center led by Stephen Tsang, MD, Ph.D have achieved temporary functional preservation of pho ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

MVA-B Spanish HIV vaccine shows 90 percent immune response in humans

Phase I clinical trials developed by Spanish Superior Scientific Research Council (CSIC) together with Gregorio Maranon Hospital in Madrid and Clínic Hospital in Barcelona, reveals MVA-B preventive vaccine's ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Control of gene expression: Mediator MED26 shifts an idling polymerase into high gear

Look up "transcription"—the copying of a gene's DNA into RNA intermediaries—in any old molecular biology text book, and it all seems very simple: RNA polymerase II, the enzyme that catalyzes the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'SKIP'-ing splicing forces tumor cells to undergo programmed cell death

When cells find themselves in a tight spot, the cell cycle regulator p21 halts the cell cycle, buying cells time to repair the damage, or if all else fails, to initiate programmed cell death. In contrast to other stress-induced ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stop and go: How the cell deals with transcriptional roadblocks

Gene transcription is central to cell function, as it converts the information stored in the DNA into RNA molecules of defined sequence, which then program protein synthesis. The enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) is responsible ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Breaking the logjam: improving data download from outer space

(PhysOrg.com) -- Satellite systems in space keyed to detect nuclear events and environmental gasses currently face a kind of data logjam because their increasingly powerful sensors produce more information than their available ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 19, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How plants 'feel' the temperature rise

Plants are incredibly temperature sensitive and can perceive changes of as little as one degree Celsius. Now, a report in the January 8th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, shows how they not only 'feel' ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover new way in which ubiquitin modifies transcriptional machinery

During gene transcription – the process inside the nucleus of cells by which DNA, the genetic material, is copied into RNA molecules – a large, ever-changing multiprotein complex is enlisted to assist the DNA-copying enzyme ...

Chemistry /

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Shedding light on the 'dark matter' of genetics: New gene-silencing pathway found in plants

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have made major headway in explaining a mechanism by which plant cells silence potentially harmful genes.

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created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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