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At a private liberal arts college in Buffalo, New York, Taylor Rios teaches undergraduate courses in molecular genetics and cellular biology. She writes about molecular genetics. In addition to lecturing, she oversees student laboratory sessions and directs senior capstone research projects examining gene expression and protein regulation. Rios earned her bachelor’s degree in biology before completing a master’s degree in biology at the University of Colorado Boulder.

shRNA vs. siRNA: What Is the Difference in Gene Silencing?
What Is Base Stacking and Why Is It Important?
What Do Exonucleases Do in DNA Repair and RNA Control
Is Histone Acetylation Post-Translational or Post-Transcriptional?
What Is a Splice Acceptor Site in RNA Processing?
Does tRNA Have Thymine? The Role of Modified Bases
How Are Thymine Dimers Repaired in DNA?
What Is the S Checkpoint in DNA Replication?
How Does DNA Methylation Affect Transcription?
How Are Histones Modified to Inhibit Transcription?
What Causes TrpR to Bind to DNA in the Trp Operon?
How microRNA Silences Genes: The Mechanism Explained
What Is DNA Overload and How Does It Affect Cells?
What Is the Relaxed Form of DNA?
What Makes DNA Move? From Molecules to Chromosomes
Why Are Genes Contained in Compact Chromatin Not Expressed?
What Are siRNA and How Do They Silence Genes?
What Do Spliceosomes Do? The RNA Splicing Process
Why Does DNA Clump Together?
How Is DNA Methylation Used in DNA Repair?
What Is Unusual About the Initiator tRNA?
What Is the First Order of Chromatin Packing?
What Is Chromatin Remodeling and How Does It Work?
What Is the Role of mRNA in Expressing Specialized Structures?
Why Are Some Poly-A Tails Longer Than Others?
Does Acetylation Increase Gene Expression?
Where Does Topoisomerase Bind on DNA?
Does HPV Integrate Into the Host Genome?
Why Is There a Short Section of DNA That Cannot Be Repaired?
What Is an Enhanceosome and How Does It Activate Genes?