An international team of researchers including scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have developed a way ...
The power of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced computing has made it possible to design genetic sequences encoding ...
A major advance in cell biology has revealed how our cells safeguard their genetic material during one of the most vulnerable moments in their life cycle. The study identifies a specific protein ...
Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...
Using comparative molecular biology with human cGAS – which actually inhibits DNA repair – the scientists found that the naked mole-rat's enzyme has four key changes that facilitate the important work ...
Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. The translocation of DNA in polymerase (Pol) enzymes is a critical step for ...
Not all DNA looks like the familiar double helix. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes under certain conditions. One such structure known as a G-quadruplex (G4) looks like a ...
1 Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Xinhua Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China 2 Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Shanghai Children’s Medical ...
Researchers still do not have a comprehensive picture of the factors that influence gene expression in human cancers. Understanding gene expression in cancer is important because it can reveal how the ...