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

Histone tails and their epigenetic modifications play crucial roles in gene expression regulation by altering the architecture of chromatin. However, the structural mechanisms by which histone tails ...

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

Chromatin is a flexibly joined chain of nucleosomes that exists inside the nucleus of eukaryotic cells and has been described as a 'bead on a string'. Chromatin organization strengthens DNA for ...

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

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

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

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

Researchers discovered that genetic conflict between paternal and maternal genes determines whether honey bee larvae become ...

A new review published in Genes & Diseases explores the intricate epigenetic regulatory network of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), shedding light on the profound ...