In an important new study, Chinese researchers have discovered the previously unrecognized role of alternative splicing of ...

Living organisms have a knack for persisting in the face of challenges. For instance, when genes malfunction, organisms may be able to compensate by activating redundant genes with similar functions, ...

Humanized mouse models are essential for investigating human gene function; however, the complete replacement of mouse genes ...

One idea has been that speckles are splicing factories. The splicing reaction would happen inside the speckle, and then the spliced product would leave. “What people found is that’s not what happens,” ...