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

Elongation: RNA polymerase moves along the DNA template strand, reading the nucleotide sequence and adding complementary RNA nucleotides to the growing RNA molecule. This process follows base-pairing ...

Genes contain instructions for making proteins, and a central dogma of biology is that this information flows from DNA to RNA to proteins. But only two percent of the human genome actually encodes ...

Neurodegenerative diseases are commonly adult-onset conditions characterized by degeneration of specific neuronal populations. Familial forms are caused by mutations in single genes, but most patients ...

A region of DNA that codes for a protein, often referred to as a gene, is the fundamental unit of heredity responsible for specific traits and functions within an organism. This intricate segment of ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 71, No. 2 (Feb., 1974), pp. 302-306 (5 pages) Extracts of wheat germ are capable of synthesizing the major capsid ...

Early in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it was clear that quick and accurate diagnostic techniques were required to deal with emerging infections and offset the negative impacts of ...

Eclipsebio is the exclusive license holder to patents covering key aspects of Ribo-Seq technology developed by inventors Weismann and Ingolia at the University of California, San Fransisco (UCSF) ...