before moving down the DNA to the gene. Enhancers are regions of DNA that act as molecular switches for turning genes on or off. Understanding enhancer function is very important, since they ...

Morphology-controlling genes frequently react to multiple separate enhancers, each of which controls the gene's expression in a distinct body part. Enhancers were formerly believed to be modular.

However, every cell in our body has the same DNA and has ... But in other contexts, scientists observed that enhancers begin ...

Enhancer Biology lab studies gene regulation and genome architecture controlled by transcription factors using genome-wide functional genomics methods. Our aim is to understand enhancer malfunction ...

New study by Chiba University, Japan in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, uncovers novel enhancer-promoter interactions that regulate gene expression during neuronal ...

This shows that the region contains several non-modular enhancers (blue = strong gene expression; red = weak gene expression). The image may be used in combination with the press release.