A new study published in Aging Cell reveals that a well-known enzyme, long known for its involvement with cancer, actually ...

Exposure to alcohol during the first weeks of embryonic development changes gene activity and cellular metabolism. In ...

The herpes virus that commonly causes cold sores affects how tightly coiled our DNA is and makes it shrink, all to help ...

Experiments with tools designed to detect DNA damage reveal unique and conserved features of telomeres in cancer cells.

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

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

Researchers have identified several uncharacterized chromatin factors and a gene that are involved in DNA repair.

Using capillary gel electrophoresis, researchers from the National Institute of Health Sciences in Kanagawa, Japan studied the factors that optimize chain-length distribution analysis of messenger RNA ...

The G-loop acts like a landing pad for additional proteins. These proteins untie the G4 knot, break apart the G-loop and ...