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The process by which DNA is 'read' to produce RNA molecules. These can have regulatory functions, or may be mRNA molecules that pass from the cell nucleus to the ribosomes, where they are used as a template to build proteins in a process called translation.

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Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the sequencing output from an automated DNA sequencing machine.

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11 November 2024 • 4 minutes read

Extra chromosomal DNA in tumours fuels cancer growth

by Dr Dan Jacobson

Circular DNA existing outside chromosomes can drive cancer growth and is a potential drug target, according to three papers published this week in Nature...

News

11 November 2024 • 3 minutes read

Noncoding DNA regulates embryonic heart development in mice

by Burleen Chhatwal

A sequence of noncoding DNA has been shown to regulate a gene crucial for embryonic limb and heart development in mice...

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7 October 2024 • 1 minute read

Nobel Prize awarded for microRNA discovery

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2 September 2024 • 5 minutes read

Book Review: How Life Works – A user's guide to the new biology

by Dr Tom Turner

Award-winning and prolific science writer, Dr Philip Ball, offers a wide perspective in his latest book 'How Life Works'...

News

27 August 2024 • 2 minutes read

Transcription factor position determines gene activity

by Dr Olivia Goff

'Spatial grammar' within our DNA code has been uncovered, which could change our understanding of how genes are activated...

News

28 May 2024 • 3 minutes read

Genetic control of the brain – comprehensive cell maps published

by Dr Paige Mumford

Fifteen studies comprehensively mapping the genes responsible for regulation of activity and development of the brain have been published...

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25 September 2023 • 2 minutes read

Mitochondrial DNA maternally inherited due to absence in mature sperm

by Jake Knox

Although sperm cells do contain some mitochondria, scientists have found that these mitochondria do not contain intact mitochondrial DNA...

Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.

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4 September 2023 • 2 minutes read

Smoking in teen boys leads to DNA damage in offspring

by Georgia Canton

Specific epigenetic changes to the genomes of offspring have been linked to smoking by their fathers before the age of 15, a recent study across six countries showed...

Image by Matthew Daniels via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts human cells showing the stages of cell division (starting with interphase at the top and progressing anticlockwise, the stages shown are prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, early anaphase, anaphase and telophase).

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24 July 2023 • 3 minutes read

CRISPR genome editing offers new approaches to treating Alzheimer's

by Dr Joanne Delange

Two potential new treatments for Alzheimer's disease using the CRISPR genome editing approach have been reported at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands...

News

6 February 2023 • 2 minutes read

New understanding of how chemotherapy drug interacts with DNA

by Devika Sooklall

A chemotherapy drug has been found to halt the replication of cancer cells via an unexpected mechanism...

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Extra chromosomal DNA in tumours fuels cancer growth

Noncoding DNA regulates embryonic heart development in mice

Nobel Prize awarded for microRNA discovery

Book Review: How Life Works – A user's guide to the new biology

Transcription factor position determines gene activity

Genetic control of the brain – comprehensive cell maps published

Mitochondrial DNA maternally inherited due to absence in mature sperm

Smoking in teen boys leads to DNA damage in offspring

CRISPR genome editing offers new approaches to treating Alzheimer's

New understanding of how chemotherapy drug interacts with DNA

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