Dubbed the ‘guardian of the genome’, the p53 protein responds to DNA damage by stalling cell division, initiating DNA repair ...

From Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Charlotte J. Sumner, M.D., presents an editorial on a study by Richard S.

Alternative splicing has been proposed as a key contributor to the genetic diversity observed in prostate tumors. Here, the authors focus on the clinically relevant consequences of alternative ...

Merck KGaA has swooped into a neurological-focused pact with RNA biotech Skyhawk Therapeutics that could top out at $2 ...

Splicing has a key role in oncogenesis, tumor suppression, and metastasis in cancer-related genes. Various types of cancers have been linked to changes in alternative splicing.

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Splicing of pre-messenger RNA is regulated differently in the brain compared with other tissues. Recognition of aberrations in splicing events that are associated with neurological disease has ...

Alternative splicing, a clever way a cell generates many different variations of messenger RNAs - single-stranded RNAs involved in protein synthesis - and proteins from the same stretch of DNA ...

This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute and the National Science Foundation. Fred Hutch/UW Cancer Consortium member Alice Berger contributed to this ...

Human Genes: Alternative Splicing Far More Common Than Thought Date: November 4, 2008 Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Summary: Scientists have long known that it's possible for one ...