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Molecular Biology is the field of biology that studies the composition, structure and interactions of cellular molecules such as nucleic acids and proteins that carry out the biological processes essential for the cells functions and maintenance.
Researchers find that brief and reversible inhibition of a gene-silencing mechanism leads to irreversible tumour formation in fruit flies, challenging the idea that cancer is caused only by permanent changes to DNA.
In this issue of Nature Metabolism, the research team of Mitchell Lazar reveals unexpected consequences of double loss of the coregulators NCOR1 and NCOR2 (NCOR1/2) in hepatocytes of adult mice, which affects chromatin functioning and glucocorticoid receptor (GR)-mediated gene transcription.
Whether bacterial replisome progression follows a “factory” or “track” model remains a long-standing controversy. Here, the authors find that cells can switch between the two models, in a process governed by dynamic chromosome organization processes.
In this Journal Club article, Olivia Rissland describes how a 1987 paper by Don Cleveland and colleagues provided insight into co-translational gene regulation of tubulin.
Researchers find that brief and reversible inhibition of a gene-silencing mechanism leads to irreversible tumour formation in fruit flies, challenging the idea that cancer is caused only by permanent changes to DNA.
The cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the health impacts of climate change must be better understood in order to plan interventions that mitigate harm.