The louse genome is small and the insect shares 90 percent of its genes ... clothing environment." In social ants, bees, and termites, environmental factors regulate alternative splicing through ...

A company formed by Harvard genetics professor George Church, known for his pioneering work in genome sequencing and gene splicing, hopes to genetically resurrect woolly mammoths.

The Great Lakes of East Africa swarm with fish–particulary with one kind of fish known as cichlids. In Lake Victoria alone you can find over 500 species. These species come in different colors ...

Living organisms have a knack for persisting in the face of challenges. For instance, ... That is alternative splicing; it allows one gene to make many different proteins.

Gene Expression And Splicing Vary Widely From One Tissue To The Next Date: January 6, 2009 Source: Duke University Medical Center Summary: Genes talk to themselves and to each other to control how ...

Living organisms have ... including alternative splicing, a process that allows cells to make many different proteins from a limited number of genes. "To make proteins, genes in the DNA are ...

However, unlike in wild type cells, splicing mutants with more retained introns lost their gene regulatory ability. “Understanding why this is the case, understanding how these fluctuations in ...

The study, "Global impact of unproductive splicing on human gene expression levels and traits," was supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health (grants R01GM130738, R01HG011067 ...