A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

In eukaryotes, the tight or loose packaging of the genes in chromatin (DNA plus specific proteins) can control whether the genes can be expressed to form their encoded product. Chromatin is usually ...

Humans have it. So does Drosophila. But not yeast. That "it" is a small pause at the start of gene activity - a brief molecular halt that may have ...

A newly revealed molecular tug-of-war may have implications for better understanding how a multitude of diseases and ...