DNA replication is happening continuously throughout the body, as many as trillions of times per day. Whenever a cell divides ...

Combining long-read DNA sequencing with a predictive artificial intelligence model has provided new insights into DNA ...

SMC proteins can reverse direction, reshaping DNA and solving key scientific debates. This discovery could impact research on ...

Call it the science of small, but a trio of University of Florida chemical engineers have developed a lab-on-a-chip process ...

DNA replication is happening continuously throughout the body, as many as trillions of times per day. Whenever a cell ...

A recent study published in Cell reveals that the repeated DNA sequence that leads to Huntington’s disease (HD) expands ...

In a groundbreaking shift in our understanding of mutations, researchers have discovered types of DNA damage in healthy cells ...

In a study that appears in the journal Cell, scientists from San Francisco-based Gladstone Institutes—including co-first author Megan Ostrowski (left) and senior author Vijay Ramani, ...

T cells play a pivotal role in the immune system by transforming into powerful effector cells that combat pathogens. This transformation requires rapid proliferation, during which DNA replication ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...