Not all genes are active at all times. DNA methylation is one of several epigenetic mechanisms that cells use to control gene expression. This straightforward experiment demonstrated that it was ...

Exploring these mechanisms, such as DNA methylation and non-coding RNA molecules, could help scientists develop new ...

Mr. Yoshiki Ochiai, the paper’s first author and PhD student in the Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit, tried to improve RNA methylation activity of a bacterial non-site-specific DNA ...

In order to investigate the RMS in more detail, the researchers used an innovative method in which they modified and analyzed ...

Aphid and mildew read counts leftover from the sequencing of greenhouse plants correlated with the environment of origin of the plants, and allowed the mapping of pathogen resistance genes.