Site-specific recombination is employed widely in bacteria and bacteriophage as a basis for genetic switching events that control phenotypic variation. It plays a vital role in the life cycles of ...

Estrogen is known as an important hormone, and it can control many functions by regulating the activity of hundreds of genes.

Using high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-em), researchers from Durham University, Jagiellonian University, and the John Innes Centre uncovered unprecedented detail of gyrase’s action on ...

DNA is a molecule that can get twisted and tangled - a process that must be closely regulated A research team has developed an automated technique to visualise and measure DNA tangles Technique is so ...

An international collaborative research team has discovered that G-quadraplex DNA (G4-DNA) accumulates in neurons and dynamically controls the activation and repression of genes underlying long-term ...

Image 1 shows what looks like two pieces of interlinked rope. The orange “ropes” are in fact circles, each one a double helix of DNA. Each time the two circles of DNA cross each other, one either goes ...

Although it also performs some functions in men, estrogen, the main female sex hormone, is involved in a myriad of processes, ...

Neuroscientists have uncovered a new mechanism for memory formation, and it involves changes in the structure of your DNA. If you were asked to picture a molecule of DNA, chances are you would ...