Understanding human gene function in living organisms has long been hampered by fundamental differences between species.

Just like a doctor adjusts the dose of a medication to the patient's needs, the expression of therapeutic genes, those modified in a person to treat or cure a disease via gene therapy, also needs to ...

Understanding how a potential drug is metabolised in the liver is a critical first step in early-stage drug development - but ...

Mice and newts were applied to the one-step Cre-loxP organism creation technology by TAx9. In this study, the researchers succeeded in synthesizing a Cre-loxP integrated vector by placing a short DNA ...

A synthetic PAS (red) is inserted in the 5′ UTR of a transgene. Without ligand, the cleavage destroys the coding region of the mRNA, therefore, losing transgene expression. Ligand binding to the ...