Science news articles about 'genetic messages'

  • Genetic switch potential key to new class of antibiotics

    ... ." Study Detail Riboswitches typically work by turning off the ability of an mRNA to decode its genetic message. Specifically, the current study looked at the preQ1 riboswitch that controls the ...
  • Novel polymer delivers genetic medicine, allows tracking

    ... level and have the added benefit of being more specific for their medicinal target." An example would be a genetic message that would arrest tumor growth. A challenge has been that DNA and RNA drugs ...
  • MicroRNAs appear essential for retinal health

    ... fine without any help from tiny bits of genetic material called microRNAs except for one thing — ... kick-start the process of silencing unwanted genetic messages. By breeding mice that lack one or both ...
  • First use of DNA fingerprinting to identify viable embryos

    ... , thereby identifying which embryo grew into which baby. Then they used microarray to analyse the genetic message and find out which genes were expressed in the viable blastocysts. This work is still ...
  • High throughput microscopy quantifies regulation of estrogen receptor

    ... can look at DNA occupancy of receptor and coregulators, chromatin modeling and transcription (the translation of the genetic message) at the same time in the same image, this is a good example of why ...
  • Genes hold secret of survival of Antarctic 'antifreeze fish'

    ... of genes," Cheng said. "Each tissue makes all kinds of transcripts – the genetic messages that are made into proteins – but we found that a small group of genes dominates the transcriptional process ...
  • Breakthrough in cell-type analysis offers new ways to study development and disease

    ... knot. The scientists have developed a method to reveal translational profiles by isolating the genetic messages that govern protein production in different cell types. The new method, translating ...
  • Lost in translation

    ... 't proceed as usual, getting past the error and continuing its "walk" along the DNA's protein-encoding genetic messages. "We thought that once the mistake was made, it would ...
  • U of T researchers identify protein

    ... edition of the journal Cell. Alternative splicing events greatly expand the diversity of the genetic messages and corresponding proteins produced by genes in vertebrate cells, and this process ...
  • Silence of the genes

    ... ribonucleic acid (RNA) that control whether genetic messages are silenced or expressed. From these new images ... small RNA molecules help carry out genetic instructions, siRNAs and miRNAs work to silence ...

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