Cells continually encounter endogenous and exogenous lesions that threaten genomic integrity. Among the principal pathways that safeguard DNA are nucleotide excision repair, mismatch repair and base ...
A research team has unveiled a crucial mechanism that helps regulate DNA damage repair, with important implications for improving cancer treatment outcomes. The result was published in Cell Death & ...
Genome stability is critical for the longevity of postmitotic neurons, which are uniquely susceptible to damage from metabolic by-products, environmental stressors and activity-induced DNA breaks.
Roughly 20 million people receive a cancer diagnosis each year, and an estimated 1 in 5 people will receive a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime. Cancer cells arise from damage to the cell's ...
Huntington's disease is a genetic disorder that kills nerve cells in the brain, causing people to lose their cognitive and motor abilities. New research led by Thomas Jefferson University researcher ...
Three biochemical steps of the non-homologous DNA end-joining (NHEJ) process. This figure outlines the key stages of the NHEJ repair mechanism following DNA double-strand breaks. The process can be ...
Scientists have captured the most detailed structural images to date of a specific type of protein's DNA repair process, a finding that could reveal ways to inhibit the effects of BRCA1 and BRCA2 ...
A research team led by Professor ZHAO Guoping at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has unveiled a crucial mechanism that helps regulate DNA damage repair, ...
Not all DNA looks like the familiar double helix. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes under certain conditions. One such structure known as a G-quadruplex (G4) looks like a ...
Spread the loveFor decades, the prevailing scientific dogma has been that DNA mutations – those tiny, often devastating ...
Greenland sharks may live for 400 years without suffering the kind of retinal decline normally associated with aging.