A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential ...

The human genome consists of 3 billion base pairs, and when a cell divides, it takes about seven hours to complete making a copy of its DNA. That's almost 120,000 base pairs per second. At that ...

If severe DNA damage is not repaired, the consequences for the health of cells and tissues are dramatic. A study led by researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt, part of the Rhine-Main University ...

Scientists have gained tremendous control over the genome with CRISPR editing systems, that use a guide RNA molecule to ...

For decades, multiple sclerosis research has focused on myelin, the insulation around the brain's wiring. Scientists paid ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Recent research on bowhead whale DNA repair has led to one ...

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up what researchers at Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) claim is one of the new breakthroughs in basic and biomedical ...

A new pan-cancer study has uncovered a shared vulnerability across multiple aggressive cancers and sheds light on the role ...

Researchers identified a new, sticky form of mitochondrial DNA damage that builds up at dramatically higher levels than in nuclear DNA. These lesions disrupt energy production and activate ...

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