A research group at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research says it has put to rest the notion that a gene promoter is only a promoter. They report, in the current issue of eLife Sciences, that ...

An international team, including researchers from HSE University, has created the first comprehensive map of ...

DNA sequences that regulate expression of the insulin gene are located within a region spanning ~400 bp that flank the transcription start site. This region, the insulin promoter, contains a number of ...

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 ...