LAT in Biological News

Oral contraceptives impair muscle gains in young women

...sed three times per week for ten weeks under the supervision of exercise physiologists. They performed a variety of exercises to include chest press, lat pull down, leg extension, triceps extension, arm curl and abdominal crunch. Exercise was done using standard exercise machines and each volunteer perf...

Oral contraceptives impair muscle gains in young women

...sed three times per week for ten weeks under the supervision of exercise physiologists. They performed a variety of exercises to include chest press, lat pull down, leg extension, triceps extension, arm curl and abdominal crunch. Exercise was done using standard exercise machines and each volunteer perf...

'Insulator' helps silence genes in dormant herpes virus

... boundaries, insulators can limit the range of action of other DNA elements that work to activate, or "turn on," the genes. Recent studies on the lat region of the HSV-1 genome have shown that nearby regions of the genome contain modifications indicative of silenced chromatin. The patterns found res...

Infected for life

...or the lifetime of an infected individual." The lat gene was discovered by Fraser and colleagues in 19...d Fraser and his research team to hypothesize that lat may work through an miRNA molecule, which is a small piece of the lat gene. It interferes with the translation of two ce...