Learn about our Editorial Policies. At first glance, it may seem counterintuitive to edit a transient molecule like RNA when tools exist for targeting the root of the problem: the DNA. However, DNA ...

The team then investigated its history using bioinformatical analysis to understand if its ancestors were RNA or DNA methyltransferases ... be used to develop new tools to investigate RNA ...

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Our genes contain all the instructions our body needs to function, but their expression must be finely regulated to guarantee that each cell performs its role optimally.

Researchers led by François Fuks - Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, ULB Faculty of Medicine, ULB-Cancer Research Center and Jules Bordet Institute, H.U.B. - have discovered a new mechanism which ...

Researchers have discovered that DNA and RNA epigenetics form a complementary system that precisely regulates gene activity, ...