Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a ...

Cold sore-causing HSV-1 doesn't just hijack cells it reconfigures the entire architecture of our DNA to aid its invasion.

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological ...

Not all DNA looks like the familiar twisted ladder. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes. One such ...

Researchers have discovered that the herpes virus reshapes the human genome’s architecture, rearranging its shape in ...

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological ...

On their own, however, polymerases aren't good at staying on the DNA strand. They require CTF18-RFC in humans and Ctf18-RFC in yeast to thread a ring-shaped clamp onto the DNA leading strand ...

As a postdoc, Komor found a way to achieve gene-editing with higher efficiencies and a lower incidence of indels by avoiding double-stranded breaks. She called this new class of tools “base editing” ...

Viruses are entirely dependent on their hosts to reproduce. They ransack living cells for parts and energy and hijack the host's cellular machinery to ...

Macquarie University researchers have discovered a naturally occurring protein found in human cells plays a powerful role in ...