It's a common storytelling trope: the stubborn foe who is eventually revealed to be a much-needed friend. Biology has its own ...

The human genome contains approximately 1,600 types of transcription factors responsible for regulating gene activity across ...

Agriculture, from the outset, has been made possible by humans tweaking the genes of plants to make them grow faster, produce ...

A tiny percentage of our DNA—around 2%—contains 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98%—long known as the non-coding genome, or ...

Analyzing stochastic cell-to-cell variability can potentially reveal causal interactions in gene regulatory networks.

Maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) is an autosomal dominant monogenic form of diabetes. This report describes a case with hepatocyte nuclear factor 1-alpha ( HNF1A )-MODY due to a novel ...