News tagged with splicing factors

Researchers discover a switch that controls stem cell pluripotency

Scientists have found a control switch that regulates stem cell "pluripotency," the capacity of stem cells to develop into any type of cell in the human body. The discovery reveals that pluripotency is regulated by a single ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cancer-associated long non-coding RNA regulates pre-mRNA splicing

Researchers report this month that MALAT1, a long non-coding RNA that is implicated in certain cancers, regulates pre-mRNA splicing - a critical step in the earliest stage of protein production. Their study appears in the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists discover master regulator of motor neuron firing

(PhysOrg.com) -- When the Human Genome Project was complete, DNA bowed out of the limelight and gave way to RNA as a major player in genetic regulation. Now, findings at Rockefeller University mirror this ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Something old, something new: Evolution and the structural divergence of duplicate genes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gene duplications are arguably the driving force of organismal evolution – and if they survive, such duplicate genes will diverge in both regulatory and coding genomic regions. Coding ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Bugs may be resistant to genetically modified corn

(AP) -- One of the nation's most widely planted crops - a genetically engineered corn plant that makes its own insecticide - may be losing its effectiveness because a major pest appears to be developing resistance ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Scientists discover new way to target cancer

Scientists have discovered a new way to target cancer through manipulating a master switch responsible for cancer cell growth.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Massive DNA search uncovers new mutations driving blood cancer

The most comprehensive search to date of DNA abnormalities in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has unearthed several new altered genes that drive this common blood cancer, a finding that could potentially ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Keeping stress at a distance

Beep-beep, tick, shoosh, beep-beep, tick, shoosh. Four tiny incisions are made in the patient’s abdomen … thin metal tools are inserted into the incisions.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The rate of data transmission over plastic optical fibers can be increased by controlling modal dispersion

Plastic optical fibers offer a more efficient method of data transmission in telecommunications. While glass optical fibers allow very high data rates to be transmitted, they are expensive and difficult to ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Long-term correction of severe spinal muscular atrophy by antisense therapy

A new study from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) reports surprising results that suggest that the devastating neuromuscular disease, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), might not exclusively affect the motor neurons in the ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New mechanism in the regulation of human genes

Scientists at the Technical University of Munich and the Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen and along with their colleagues from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and the Centre for Genomic Regulation ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Safeguarding genome integrity through extraordinary DNA repair

(PhysOrg.com) -- DNA is under constant attack, from internal factors like free radicals and external ones like ionizing radiation. About 10 double-strand breaks – the kind that snap both backbones of ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | 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


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