Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered how molecular "traffic controllers" in cells influence aging and cellular ...

Salt stress, a major challenge to agriculture, impacts apple growth and fruit quality globally. Recent research has uncovered the role of a WRKY family transcription factor, MdWRKY9, in regulating ...

Cells fine-tune gene expression in response to cellular stress, a process critical for tumor progression that leads to cancer. However, elucidating mechanisms governing stress-responsive transcription ...

Transcription factors are an essential part of gene expression. Some of these proteins are known as master regulators, and they can have an impact on many different biochemical pathways and processes ...

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 helped life evolve from simple cells to complex animals ...