Texas A&M AgriLife researchers uncovered a promising target for controlling gene expression and other cellular processes, ...

The great scientist strays into speculation in The Genetic Book of the Dead, his latest defence of his “selfish gene” theory of evolution. By Tim Flannery Richard Dawkins is without doubt the most ...

Gene expression is the generation of a functional gene product from the information encoded by a gene, through the processes of transcription and translation. Gene products are often proteins ...

They are “passed on” or inherited from our parents. Every cell in our body contains thousands of genes. Each gene is a portion of DNA ‘code’, which holds the information our cells need to make a ...

However, introns and the concomitant need for splicing extend the time required for gene expression and can cause an undesirable delay in the activation of genes. Here, we show that the plant microRNA ...

José Siaba Serrate is an economist at the University of Buenos Aires and the UCEMA. He won the 2017 Konex Prize on Economic Analysis. Mr. Serrate is a member of the Argentine Academy of Capital ...