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The discovery of an inducible switch in Escherichia coli that controlled lactose metabolism offered the first clues into gene expression.

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All About Alternative Splicing

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Dynamic Enhancers Orchestrate Development

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Synthetic Screens, Genes, and De Novo Proteins - A Special Podcast Series

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Understanding Cell Type Specific 3D Genome Structure and DNA Methylation

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Rapidly Dividing Bacteria Coordinate Gene Expression and Replication

Advancing Drug Discovery by Employing Synthetic Biology Tools

Advancing Drug Discovery by Employing Synthetic Biology Tools

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The Scientist's Journal Club: Transcriptomics

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Epigenetics May Remember Ancestors’ Mutations

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X Chromosome Silenced in Some Cancers in Males

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Katharina Höfer Probes the Machinery of Bacterial Gene Expression

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Integrating Single-Cell Transcriptomics and Proteomics: A New Era of Biological Research

Bridging the Gap: Integrating Single-Cell Transcriptomics and Proteomics

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Same RNA Acts in Neurodegeneration and Cancer

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Signaling Dynamics Fine-Tune Gene Expression

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Gene Offers Clue to How Human Labor Starts

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How Early-Morning Light Exposure Makes Mice Less Depressed

Cancer May Be Driven by DNA Outside of Chromosomes

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Maternal Iron Deficiency Can Trigger Sex Reversal in Mouse Embryos

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An AI-Powered Scientist Proposes a Treatment for Blindness

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Taking Control of Cellular Contamination with PCR Testing

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Rare Disease Research Gets a Boost from Automated NGS Solutions

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Nergal Networks: Where Friendship Meets Infection

A citizen science game explores how social choices and networks can influence how an illness moves through a population.

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Unraveling Complex Biology with Advanced Multiomics Technology

Unraveling Complex Biology with Five-Dimensional Multiomics

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Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

Resurrecting Plant Defense Mechanisms to Avoid Crop Pathogens

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Seeing and Sorting with Confidence

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Streamlining Microbial Quality Control Testing

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