Different cells have different activities. By controlling protein synthesis within each cell, the genes that make up DNA control the life of the entire organism. Although the outcome of protein ...

Now researchers from The Rockefeller University have unearthed intriguing genetic evidence: a protein variant found only in humans that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.

A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in ...

She has a background in neuroscience and molecular psychiatry ... Human Genome Project researchers initially counted protein-coding genes—regions of chromosomal DNA that are transcribed into RNA and ...

Wageningen researchers have discovered that a vital plant protein originated more than 600 million years ago, long before the first plants existed. They traced its origins back to an evolutionary ...

Research from the Voigt lab at the Babraham Institute has investigated the mechanism by which bivalency functions to poise ...

Furthermore, some genes can up- or downregulate rates of transcription, which changes the total amount of protein produced ... genetic background and variable expression levels, did not explain ...

It's the specific transcript of a gene and how it gets spliced together that ultimately is what makes a functional protein or a regulatory molecule ... Claudia is an intern at The Scientist with a ...