Being queen is all in this #termite's head, finds #gene expression study.
#queen_central_module #transcriptomic #upregulation #totipotent
In the world of termites studied by Northeastern professor Rebeca Rosengaus, worker termites spend their few short months on Earth cleaning and feeding their enormous long-lived queen mother and tending to her eggs and their young siblings.
Novel approaches for correcting #gene_expression insufficiency.
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-approaches-gene-insufficiency.html
A new molecular technology capable of binding to mRNA and regulating gene expression may offer a new avenue for treating diseases caused by haploinsufficiency, or the absence of one functional gene copy, according to a study published in Nature Communications.
Matt Willemsen
CellBioNews