Long before DNA unraveled the double helix of life, scientists were already tinkering with its inheritance. The idea that ...

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These fundamental findings offer a novel mechanism by which rubrerythrin tubules encapsulate encapsulin to prevent oxidative stress in Pyrococcus furiosus. However, there are a few reasonable concerns ...

At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how ...

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 ...

In 2012, scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier replicated this mechanism found in microbes to develop a ...

This landmark study describes the structure of the human RAD51 filament with a recombination intermediate called the displacement loop (D-loop). Using cryogenic structural, biochemical, and ...

Those expecting a tense, suspense-laden page-turner on the lines of The Devotion of Suspect X are likely to find Invisible ...

Researchers unveil the fractal globule structure of DNA, providing new insights into genome organization and its implications ...

known as a double helix, but it is possible for DNA to change shape and structure. The new study, published in Nature Communications, reveals the detail in the structure of a type of DNA called i ...

known as a double helix, but it is possible for DNA to change shape and structure. The new study, published in Nature Communications, reveals the detail in the structure of a type of DNA called i ...

In the middle of the 20th century, accumulating data suggested that DNA carries life ... to cytosine between the two helical backbones, adding that the proposed structure “immediately suggests ...