The project started as undergraduate research supervised by the study’s co-corresponding author, Naoki Masuda, professor in the Department of Mathematics. That initial work carried out a somewhat ...

Researchers at Northwestern University say they have developed a novel technique that dramatically boosts gene expression. According to Julius Lucks, Ph.D., an associate professor of chemical and ...

Code-switching is more than just a linguistic phenomenon; it’s a dynamic expression of identity, culture, and survival. Code-switching is a nuanced and multifaceted practice that goes beyond merely ...

Our genome contains thousands of genes, each of which has to be turned on and off at precisely the right times, or serious dysfunction in our bodies can result. If scientists could learn how to ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 103, No. 34 (Aug. 22, 2006), pp. 12813-12818 (6 pages) Candida albicans, a commensal organism and a pathogen of ...

A biological switch that reliably turns protein expression on at will has been invented. The switch enables control of genome editing tools that might one day regulate cascades of desired genetic ...