The tick has ability to transmit a greater variety of infectious agents to humans and other animal species than any other blood-feeding arthropod. Feeding over a period of days induces specific host hemostatic, inflammatory, and immune responses....
The ability of embryonic stem cells to give rise to all cells comprising the three germ layers – endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm – highlights a powerful in vivo system for the study of early embryonic development. Human embryonic stem cell...
The RNA molecule is responsible for providing information to the cell to assemble proteins specified by the DNA. A specific type of RNA editing can convert individual adenosines into inosine by an enzyme called adenosine deaminase acting on RNA...
A-to-I RNA editing is an enzymatic reaction commonly found in the nervous system of various organisms. The mechanism behind this post-transcriptional modification is the hydrolytic deamination of Adenosine to Inosine by a family of enzymes known as...
Discovering RNA editing sites in model organisms provides an insight into their adaptations in addition to finding potential sites for gene expression regulation. In this study, we focused on the grin1b gene of Zebrafish due to its important...
Oxytocin (OT) is a neuropeptide hormone/neurotransmitter that has been receiving increased attention from both neuroscientists and neuropsychologists due to its behavioral effects on the brain and nervous system. At first, it was discovered to be...
