The DNA packed inside every human cell contains instructions for life, written in billions of letters of genetic code. Every time a cell divides, the complete code, divided among 46 chromosomes, must ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...

Mitochondrial transcription elongation factor maintains the balance between transcription and replication of mitochondrial DNA offering insights into potential treatments for mitochondrial disease and ...

Discovery reshapes understanding of how tumor cells repair broken DNA, pointing toward more precise cancer therapies.

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

Scientists from Skoltech and the University of Potsdam have developed a physical theory that sheds light on how molecular ...

When humans started farming around 10,000 years ago, they reshaped their landscapes, diets, and social structures. A common ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified an epigenetic target for replication stress, ...