The enhancers in this metaphor would be in charge of the amount of ingredients rather than their kind. Using sawdust instead ...

“We didn’t think it would work.” The results serve as an extreme example of what scientists are now recognizing as trends among enhancers—that activity can be conserved over long evolutionary ...

Analyzing the DNA of the threespine stickleback, researchers led by David Kingsley, a biologist at Stanford University, identified a so-called genetic enhancer, a kind of volume control knob that ...

The researchers began by collecting cranio-facial tissue from embryonic mice for chromatin immunoprecipitation using p300, a protein associated with genetic enhancers, followed by sequencing. They ...

Cleft lip and cleft palate are among the most common birth defects, occurring in about one in 1,050 births in the United States.

The exact genetic mechanisms behind this similarity, however, have remained unclear. This new study focused on a super-enhancer region upstream of MYC, a hotspot for cancer risk variants.