Investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a versatile and non-toxic technology for controlling the activity of ...

Cyclone is a portable gene-switch system that uses acyclovir to reversibly control gene expression with minimal toxicity.

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

People looking to lose weight and lower their blood sugar may someday be able to get a single injection that turns their ...

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is one of life's most versatile molecules, with roles going far beyond being a messenger of genetic ...

Michael Buck, PhD, professor of biochemistry in the Jacobs School, recently received NIH funding to explore how molecular readers of DNA access and activate seemingly hidden genes.

What if the brain's response to stress could be read not in fleeting neurotransmitter bursts, but in the quieting of genes ...