Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a debilitating, progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects about 7 million Americans, a figure that is expected to nearly double by 2050, according to the ...

It has long been accepted that a gene's protein-coding information is contained in only one of its two DNA strands. But in 22 February Nature, Victor Corces and co-workers at the Department of Biology ...

Two forms of the ubiquitous protein actin differ by only four amino acids but are dissimilar in 13% of their nucleotide coding sequences due to silent substitutions. A new study reveals that these ...

These sequences have long been thought to be absent of any protein-coding function. Previous work revealed that a six-base-pair repeat of DNA could be found in an inherited form of ALS; it generated ...

The team constructed a table with all the transcripts from each gene and the read mapping data was represented as tables and rows, respectively, to generate a receiver-operator characteristic (ROC ...

Protein coding 'junk genes' may be linked to cancer Date: November 17, 2013 Source: Karolinska Institutet Summary: By using a new analysis method, researchers have found close to one hundred novel ...

Enhancers boost the rate of gene expression from nearby protein-coding genes so a cell can pump out more of a needed protein molecule. A mysterious subset of non-coding RNAs -- enhancer RNAs ...

Late-onset Alzheimer's disease is a debilitating, progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects about 7 million Americans, a figure that is expected to nearly double by 2050, according to the ...

The protein actin is ubiquitous and essential for life. In mammals, every cell expresses two of its forms, beta-actin and gamma-nonmuscle-actin. Despite having distinct roles, the two forms are ...