This article explores how epigenetic mechanisms control gene expression, how their disruption drives cancer and how targeting these processes is reshaping cancer diagnosis and treatment.

For stem cells to differentiate into the appropriate cell-type, transcription factors (TFs) must be tailored to highly specific expression patterns of lineage-specific genes. Abnormalities in the ...

The sugar glucose, which is the main source of energy in almost every living cell, has been revealed in a Stanford Medicine study to also be a master regulator of tissue differentiation - the process ...