Key Roadblock To Gene Expression Identified: Implications For AIDS
Thursday, May 8, 2008 - 10:21
in Biology & Nature
For the first time, research has made possible a detailed map of how the building blocks of chromosomes, the cellular structures that contain genes, are organized in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The work identifies a critical stop sign for transcription, the first step in gene expression, and has implications for understanding how the AIDS virus regulates its genes.