Sunburns and aging skin are obvious effects of exposure to harmful UV rays, tobacco smoke and other carcinogens. But the ...

Technically, Pol-theta is an enzyme—a type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions, including those related to cell ...

The small study in patients with a rare disorder that causes liver and lung damage showed the potential for precisely ...

A new method for mapping torsion provides insights into the ways that the genome responds to the torsion generated by RNA polymerase II.

A new structural blueprint paves the way for improved targeting of cancer cells, particularly those with BRCA1 and BRCA2 ...

A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan's high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic ...

University at Albany researchers at the RNA Institute are pioneering new methods for designing and assembling DNA ...

Kokoris came up with the idea of solving some of the noise issue of nanopore sequencing by converting DNA into larger ...

The Summit supercomputer revealed how damaged strands of DNA are surgically repaired by a molecular pathway called nucleotide ...

Researchers at the RNA Institute at the University at Albany are pioneering new methods for designing and assembling DNA ...

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a CRISPR-based diagnostic tool capable of detecting ...

Scientists at Scripps Research have now captured the first detailed images of the DNA repair protein, Pol-theta, in action, ...