Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to increased knowledge about gene regulation in human cells.

Researchers have identified a stress-activated control mechanism that helps breast cancer cells reshape gene activity to ...

This article examines some of the cell-based approaches that researchers are using to study acquired drug resistance and the ...

Multicellular cyanobacteria do something strikingly sophisticated with their DNA, toggling key genes on and off as day turns ...

Cell culture plates in the Roeder lab where scientists recently studied gene expression in breast cancer. (Credit: Lori Chertoff) Cells are regularly ...

The study by Reed et al. provides fundamental findings and convincing evidence defining the topological changes that occur during tumorigenesis. The findings enhance the understanding of stable ...

A figure from the paper illustates a key finding of "compromised compartmentalization": chromatin that was locking genes down in health became more open in Alzheimer's, while chromatin that was open ...

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes long-term ...