In their landmark 1961 paper on the lac operon, Nobel laureates François Jacob and Jacques Monod speculated that RNA might ...

The 92-year-old bacterial geneticist who helped pioneer the study of gene regulation has passed away. In this half-day virtual summit, a series of presentations will explore the scientific, regulatory ...

New research suggests a possible explanation for the organization of operons, jointly controlled clusters of genes that evolved in bacterial chromosomes. Operons, which are found in the chromosomes of ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Because the β-galactosidase activity of exponentially growing cells is at steady state, the corresponding β-galactosidase synthesis rate is ...

While CRISPR may be the most notable genetic technology to emerge from microbes, many of the tools researchers use to control genes and their products are borrowed from bacterial systems. One of these ...

Scientists have been trying to understand the nature and importance of protein-DNA interactions since the early 1960s. Such research started with studies of the association of RNA polymerase with DNA, ...