Hitchhiking DNA picked up by a gene may save a species from extinction

An international research team led by Hiroki Shibuya at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has ...

MIT researchers develop a new system can dial expression of synthetic genes up or down

MIT engineers designed a control mechanism, known as DIAL, that allows them to establish a desired protein level, or set point, for any synthetic gene circuit.
eLife

Mechanistic insights into transcriptional regulation of ARHGAP36 expression identify a factor predictive of neuroblastoma survival

This important study examines the potential role of ARHGAP36 transcriptional regulation by FOXC1 in controlling sonic hedgehog signaling in human neuroblastoma. While there are many solid findings ...
eLife

Herbivorous insects independently evolved salivary effectors to regulate plant immunity by destabilizing the malectin-LRR RLP NtRLP4

State Key Laboratory for Quality and Safety of Agro-Products, Key Laboratory of Biotechnology in Plant Protection of MARA, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Green Plant Protection, Institute of Plant ...
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‘Seattle biotech is on fire’: Industry produces three Nobel Prize winners in two years

Nobel Prize winners, from left: Mary Brunkow, senior program manager at the Institute for Systems Biology, Fred Ramsdell, co-founder and chair of Sonoma Biotherapeutic’s scientific advisory board; and ...