If DNA is a book, then how is it read? Learn more about the DNA transcription process, where DNA is converted to RNA, a more portable set of instructions for the cell. The process of transcription can ...

Believe it or not, all of the cells within a multicellular organism (excluding red blood cells and gametes) contain exactly the same DNA. In which case, why is a heart composed of cardiomyocytes? Or ...

What new Howard Hughes Medical Institute president Robert Tijan said about the activities of our genes in 1995: They are tightly regulated by elaborate complexes of proteins that assemble on DNA.

The latest chemistry news, including important research advances, business and policy trends, chemical safety practices, career guidance, and more. RNA transcription isn’t a fully continuous process; ...

The central dogma of molecular biology states that genes make RNAs, which then make proteins. Researchers in Germany have now discovered how the crucial first steps in RNA synthesis are executed -- ...

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology came of age during COVID-19 with several vaccines and therapeutics coming to market. However, since the height of the pandemic, the flow of new mRNA-based products has ...

Plasmids containing the VA RNA genes of adenovirus are faithfully transcribed by a crude cytoplasmic extract containing DNA-dependent RNA polymerase III [Wu, G.-J. (1978) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 75 ...