In a significant breakthrough for biology and medical research, Indian scientists have uncovered new insights into how ...

Indian scientists have uncovered a new bacterial transcription mechanism, challenging a long-held theory and offering fresh insights to tackle Tuberculosis ...

Scientists have identified a flaw in a long-standing bacterial gene expression model, opening new ways to combat tuberculosis ...

Know how the Indian researchers at Bose Institute have challenged the long-accepted sigma cycle theory in tuberculosis ...

The study challenges the notion of a “one-size-fits-all” mechanism in bacterial transcription and highlights the diversity of regulatory strategies employed by pathogens.

For years, scientists believed that a protein called σ factor binds RNA polymerase, initiates bacterial transcription and is ...

Tuberculosis is one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases and now, a team of scientists has discovered a fundamental ...

A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil. When you purchase through links on our ...

This manuscript explores the dynamic behaviors of Pol II and Pol III puncta that encompass the SL1 and 5S genes, following up on the authors' prior studies on ATTF-6. The authors show that ATTF-6 is ...

A new study adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests asteroid impacts played a critical role in the emergence of life on our planet. Reading time 3 minutes Early Earth was a brutally hot, ...

The newly discovered tiny QT45 ribozyme, shown here in an artist’s depiction, helped researchers explore the origins of life. Image credit: Elfy Chiang (artist), microscopy image by James Attwater.

There are plenty of unanswered questions about the origin of life on Earth. But the research community has largely reached consensus that one of the key steps was the emergence of an RNA molecule that ...