Genome instability can cause numerous diseases. Cells have effective DNA repair mechanisms at their disposal. A research team has now gained new insights into the DNA damage response.

A UCLA-led study has created a map of DNA modification in two regions of the brain critical to learning, memory and emotional ...

To drive folding to completion, researchers typically use 10 times as many staples as actually get incorporated in the finished structure ... DNA structures were to form part of a biosensor, for ...

It is known, for example, that RNA modifications ... team show that the frequent occurrence of DNA double-strand breaks ...

A quick swab of your cheek might one day reveal how long you have left to live. Researchers have discovered that a DNA test ...

Genome instability can cause numerous diseases. Cells have effective DNA repair mechanisms at their disposal. A research team ...

They embedded DNA molecules, encoding multiple images, into a branched gel-like structure ... example, by destroying RNA strands detrimental to health. As a proof of concept, the team developed 1,000 ...

Chirality is an essential property in biology; the molecular building blocks of some of the most important biological ...

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Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics, Department of Physics and Debye Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands ...

Researchers identified a new mechanism in the DNA damage response involving the long non-coding RNA NEAT1. Increased NEAT1 ...

NEAT1 itself does not repair DNA damage. However, as the Wurzburg team discovered, it enables the controlled release and activation of an RNA-binding DNA repair factor. In this way, the cell can ...