MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Scientists have uncovered something pretty astounding which might carry big implications in regenerative medicine: the sea walnut, Mnemiopsis leidyi, can...

RNA splicing is one of the major mechanisms for RNA processing, which involves getting the precursor messenger RNA-pre-mRNA-to its mature...

During RNA splicing, the introns are precisely excised, and the exons are ligated together. The majority of nuclear pre-mRNAs are...

Antigen is derived from a French word, “antigène“ where anti means "against “ and the ‘gen’ means thing that produces...

Capping is the first modification made to RNA polymerase II-transcribed RNA and takes place co-transcriptionally in the nucleus as soon...

Brown is the color of eye prevalent worldwide by a huge margin. It is, in fact, green is considered to...

RNA interference (RNAi) is a conserved process that regulates gene expression using small silencing RNAs acting in a sequence-specific manner....

The tryptophan (trp) operon of Escherichia coli is a paradigm example of a repressed, negatively controlled operon. This operon involves...

Pleiotropy is a central genetic concept referring to how a single gene can affect multiple phenotypic traits. The recognition of...

From CRISPR to Pervasive Transcription CRISPR and Noncoding RNAs: Evolutionary Defenses Noncoding RNAs, small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), and Piwi-interacting RNAs...