A unique feature of HR is that it repairs the damage to the DNA in a highly accurate way. In eukaryotic cells (those with a ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have addressed a longstanding challenge in CRISPR ...

New research from Max Planck Institute reveals how plants defend their genomes from invasion by chloroplast DNA.

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Researchers uncover how rapid DNA repair protects genomes from internal threats, with implications for cancer biology.

The protein factors that are required for TCR and general genome repair (GGR) of DNA damage fall into two broad groups. The first contains factors that are thought to be uniquely involved in ...

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