How major nuclear protein complexes control specialized gene regulation in cancer and beyond

Precision and timing of gene expression is essential for normal biological functions and, when disrupted, can lead to many ...
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Comprehensive resource describes functions of more than 20,000 human genes

A comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes has just been completed and released. Researchers used large-scale evolutionary modeling to integrate data on ...
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Do biological age tests really work?

Biological age tests measure how fast your body is aging compared to your actual age. These tests rely on biomarkers tied to ...
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Flexibility is function: How unstructured protein segments regulate biological functions

Researchers have discovered how unstructured segments of surface proteins regulate the biological function of a cell. Their study, published in Nature Communications, sheds new light on the interplay ...
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Researchers identify biochemical functions for most of the human genome

Only about 1 percent of the human genome contains gene regions that code for proteins, raising the question of what the rest of the DNA is doing. Scientists have now begun to discover the answer: ...
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Unveiling the 'functionome': Online resource describes functions of more than 20,000 human genes

A new resource from the Gene Ontology Consortium, a comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes, has been completed and released on a new website. For the first ...