These days, scientists sometimes take a minimalist approach, throwing out the cell and its contaminating components altogether and keeping only what they need for transcription and translation. Such ...

How would you make transcription and translation work when you no longer have a nucleus? Bacteria have an interesting answer. Attenuation, or dampening, of the trp operon is made possible by the ...

The genetic information stored in DNA is a living archive of instructions that cells use to accomplish the functions of life. Inside each cell, catalysts seek out the appropriate information from ...