Yeast is a single cell eukaryotic organism, that incites in this Irish scientist an intense memory of the smell of brewing Guinness, wafting down the River Liffey on a drizzly Dublin day as I sit at ...

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Different mechanisms have been proposed to explain the specificity of enhancer-promoter interactions, including promoter competition and insulator DNA elements. In the 9 July Proceedings of the ...

Plant bioengineering—in which plant genes are modified to include desirable characteristics—is the key to solutions for problems concerning crop resilience and food security. Elements like gene ...