When it comes to helping NASA scientists better understand the effects of space travel on the human body, fruit flies are the ...

A powerful new discovery reveals that Nup98 a protein once thought to only ferry molecules through the nucleus plays a vital ...

When DNA breaks inside the cell, it can spell disaster, especially if the damage occurs in areas of the genome that are ...

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

However, another cellular polymerase can substitute for β-pol to incorporate a single nucleotide residue in the repair of MMS-induced DNA damage. It remains to be determined whether repair of DNA ...

This might be caused primarily by secondary DNA structures or by failure in the replication machinery, the S-phase checkpoint or the double-stranded-break repair machinery. Fragile sites are ...