The fundamental process of gene transcription can be reconstituted in vitro, but an understanding of how it operates and how it is regulated in vivo is lacking. One hypothesis suggests that, rather ...

This valuable study identifies a novel regulator of stress-induced gene quiescence in C. elegans: the multi-Zinc-finger protein ZNF-236. The work provides evidence for an active mechanism that ...

Over the past two decades, molecular and cell biologists have made important progress in characterizing the components and compartments of the cell. New visualization methods have also revealed ...

It started out as a cluster of thunderstorms off the coast of Africa, but now Tropical Storm Erin is organizing in the open Atlantic, with predictions that it may become the season’s first hurricane ...