A new paper has now added transcription to the mix of factors needed for methylation in mammalian oocytes. Differentially methylated regions (DMRs) are CpG islands that are methylated in either ...

A new method for mapping torsion provides insights into the ways that the genome responds to the torsion generated by RNA polymerase II.

A research team led by Prof. Cao Xiaofeng at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese ...

A multi-institutional team of investigators have developed a catalog of transcription factor binding ... professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and a co-author of the study.

In genetics, it has generally been accepted that each gene has one transcription initiation site, located downstream of a core promoter region and typically around a TATA box—a DNA sequence rich ...