Manipulating Gene Expression to Treat Disease. Several of our scientists study gene regulation in specific cancers, including cancers of the blood, lung, pancreas and prostate. They seek treatment ...

Fruit ripening determines shelf life and consumer appeal, yet the molecular switches that control this process remain ...

A team of scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that ...

Study finds that the pace of evolution in organisms differs depending on the type of cells involved. A new study finds that ...

Even after 20 million years of evolutionary separation, two tiny worm species show astonishingly similar patterns in how they ...

Two species of worms, separated by 20 million years of evolution, have been found to activate their genes in nearly identical ...

Investigating how mutations in tumors alter DNA’s 3D structure—and subsequently, regulatory sequences called enhancers—can ...

And so it is with gene expression in relation to health and disease. Read More: The Gene-Editing Revolution Is Already Here We have had access to the complete, human genome sequence since 2003 .

Two species of worms have retained remarkably similar patterns in the way they switch their genes on and off despite having ...