Rogue DNA rings known as ecDNA may hold the key to cracking glioblastoma’s deadly resilience. Emerging before tumors even ...

Maria Jasin, PhD, whose research on DNA repair has transformed our understanding of cancers, has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the Greengard Prize.

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More than a decade ago, scientists harnessed a bacterial molecular machine that identifies and cuts specific sections of DNA, ...

Reporting in Nature, scientists have identified a novel process that protects the ends of chromosomes from incorrectly applied DNA repair.. | Cell And Molecular Biology ...

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A newly developed tool utilises AI to predict how cells repair their DNA after it is cut by gene editing tools such as CRISPR ...

Using optical tweezers, researchers at National Taiwan University have observed individual binding events in real time, ...

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An aging expert thinks humans can live for 20,000 years—and he might not be crazy. There's one major key to unlocking extreme ...

Microbes found buried deep in Siberian permafrost may be able to survive over extremely long timescales using protein repair ...

Abstract Background and Purpose —Ku70 and Ku86, multifunctional DNA repair proteins, bind to broken DNA ends, including double-strand breaks, and trigger a DNA repair pathway. To investigate the ...