Mitochondria and chloroplasts contain their own genomes, but most of their proteins are encoded in the nucleus. The coordination of separate genomes is achieved by both anterograde mechanisms (nucleus ...

I recently heard someone on television use the phrase "skin in the game," and, with my usual curiousity, I wondered about its origins. As it turns out, "skin in the game" has not difinitive origin, ...

Chromatin has been implicated in the epigenetic inheritance of gene activity; however, the mechanism whereby an active or silent state of a gene is inherited is poorly understood. The stability of ...