Gene expression is linked to RNA transcription, which cannot happen without RNA polymerase. However, this is where the similarities between prokaryote and eukaryote expression end. Central to the ...

The mammalian elongation complex has remained a mystery – until researchers discovered how it controls its speed.

Chimeric RNA, also known as fusion RNA, refers to RNA molecules that are formed as a result of the fusion of two or more different RNA transcripts. Chimeric RNA, a unique class of RNA molecules formed ...

Life's instructions are written in DNA, but it is the enzyme RNA polymerase II (Pol II) that reads the script, transcribing ...

RNA polymerase II (Pol II) removes RNA errors with the help of an oxygen atom in the target RNA nucleotide. RNA polymerase II Science History Images / Alamy Stock Photo An international team of ...

Some cells just don’t get the respect they deserve. In fact, most cells don’t. Over 99 percent of the innumerable cells on our planet exist in a state of quiescence. Pick up a handful of soil: it ...

A collaborative study by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, and University of Southern California reports ...

New modelling and single-cell analyses reveal how bacterial RNA repair shapes variable responses to ribosome-targeting ...

Scientists have pinpointed precise regions in the human genome where DNA is most likely to develop a mutation. At spots where RNA polymerase 'opens' your DNA to read and copy instructions – known as ...