A recent review by Prof. Zhu Bing and Associate Professor Xiong Jun from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy ...

Despite having identical genetic instructions, female honey bee larvae can develop into either long-lived reproductive queens ...

Penn State scientists uncover how parent genes compete to decide if a honey bee larva becomes a queen or a worker.

A new review from Genes and Diseases sheds light on the pivotal role of LINE-1 elements in preimplantation development and ...

Histone proteins undergo post-translational modifications such as acetylation, methylation, phosphorylation, and ubiquitination, which collectively regulate chromatin structure and gene expression: ...

A new review from Genes and Diseases sheds light on the pivotal role of LINE-1 elements in preimplantation development and totipotency, revealing ...

In diseases due to exposure to toxic particles like gout, macrophages elicit separate pathways for inflammation and lysosomal ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising survival strategy used by cancer cells that may help to explain how they adapt and ...

This valuable study identifies asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) histones as potential determinants of the initial genomic binding of Rhino, a Drosophila-specific chromatin protein essential for ...

However, this example involves protein-protein interactions. RNA-mediated association of two distinct chromatin remodeling complexes to coordinate methylation has not been shown previously.