Beltran, the Corinne R. Henry Bower Endowed Professor of Ophthalmology, the team developed four novel photoreceptor-specific promoters. These “short segments of DNA act as molecular ‘switches’ to turn ...

Gene delivery systems can target specific brain cells, a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

For the first time, researchers have created a gene-edited spider that spins red fluorescent silk. Led by a team at the University of Bayreuth, the project tackled a long-standing challenge in ...

The numbers of the principal regulatory elements present in insulin promoters are listed. Given the complexity and uncertainty of predicting the transcriptional outcome of mutations within ...