Category Archives: Paper of the month

A Breakthrough in Gene Expression Regulation

  
<-- Click on the image to access the paper Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, MD, USA, have developed a platform to create and test synthetic regulatory elements (CREs) that control gene expression. These CREs can target specific cell types. Using neural network models and lab tests, they showed that synthetic sequences are more effective than... Read more »

The chemical reactions at the origin of life

  
<-- Click on the image to access the paper "In some ways, the origin of life is looking much less mystifying than it was a few decades ago. Researchers have figured out how some of the fundamental molecules needed for life can form via reactions that start with extremely simple chemicals that were likely to have been present on the... Read more »