The human genome contains around 20,000 genes that hold instructions for making working proteins, as most genetic databases ...

Scientists at Durham University, working in partnership with Jagiellonian University in Poland, have developed a new ...

To fight viruses, bacteria have evolved a way to make new DNA without copying it.

A newly discovered molecule disrupts cancer cells’ ability to repair DNA by triggering the breakdown of key proteins. Cancer ...

A protein tied to ALS and dementia may have a much bigger role in disease than scientists realized. Researchers found that TDP43 controls a key DNA repair process, but when the protein becomes ...

Researchers use AI to discover 14 distinct nucleosome states, revealing that DNA packaging acts as a "volume dial" for gene ...

A new discovery offers hope for Huntington’s disease. This discovery provides hope that a DNA repair process may help slow or stop disease progression. Research has identified a critical DNA repair ...

Progeria is a genetic condition that involves accelerated aging. Patients develop wrinkled skin, hair loss, and bone and joint stiffness from a very early age. One of the more unusual forms of this ...

Data from a new study in mice connects unrepaired DNA-protein crosslinks (DPCs), highly toxic tangles of protein and DNA, to inflammation-linked premature aging and embryonic lethality in mice. The ...

Scientists at the University of Rochester have discovered that bowhead whales, Earth's longest-living mammals, carry a DNA repair protein called CIRBP at levels 100 times higher than in humans.