A diagram of the DRT3 system, showing Drt3a in yellow and Drt3b in blue. (Hyunbin Lee) Scientists have just discovered an ...

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

Cancer cells survive by repairing damage to their DNA—even damage that would normally be fatal. One of their most important ...

Scientists have captured the most detailed structural images to date of a specific type of protein's DNA repair process, a ...

Learn more about a new experimental procedure that uses cancer cells’ DNA repair system against itself to make drug-resistant ...

Some pathogens use temperature as a trigger and activate virulence only after entering the warmer environment of a host. A research team from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and the University of ...

Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) proteins are essential for successful chromosome transmission during replication and segregation of the genome in all organisms. SMC proteins were thought ...

Scientists have captured the most detailed structural images to date of a specific type of protein's DNA repair process, a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. But the oldest DNA obtained so far dates back ...