Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Double-strand breaks in DNA can be deadly. Victor Golmer/iStock via Getty Images Plus Your DNA is continually damaged by sources ...
In a quiet lab at Utrecht University, researchers have built a tool that lets you watch one of life’s most serious crises unfold in real time. Inside every cell, DNA breaks, repairs, and sometimes ...
A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential ...
Conceptual illustration showing how high transcriptional activity driven by super-enhancers can lead to DNA breaks at oncogenes. When these breaks are repaired inaccurately, they can give rise to ...
How do we find out which protein works in a particular DNA repair pathway? We know that if a DNA repair gene is mutated, cells become more sensitive to DNA damaging agents. Researchers in the 1960s ...