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Location: UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States
Tiny strands of genetic material called RNA – a chemical cousin of DNA – are
emerging as major players in gene regulation, the process inside cells that
drives all biology and that scientists seek to control in order to fight
disease....
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Location: Stanford University, United States
All the crucial proteins in our bodies must fold into complex shapes to do
their jobs. These snarled molecules grip other molecules to move them around, to
speed up important chemical reactions or to grab onto our genes, turning them
"on"...
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Location: Vanderbilt University, United States
There is a new twist on the question of how biological clocks work.
In recent years, scientists have discovered that biological clocks help
organize a dizzying array of biochemical processes in the body. Despite a number
of hypotheses,...
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Location: Cornell University, Department of Physics,
LASSP, Clark Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States
Cornell researchers have answered a fundamental question about how two
strands of DNA, known as a double helix, separate to start a process called
replication, in which genes copy themselves. The research, published in the
current issue of...
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Location: Purdue University,915 W. State Street,West Lafayette, IN 47907-2054, United States
Researchers at Purdue University and The Catholic University of America have discovered the structure of an enzyme essential for the operation of "molecular motors" that package DNA into the head segment of some viruses during their assembly....
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