DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. Nucleic acids are named for where they're found—inside the nuclei of cells—and for the ...

These CENP-A proteins ensure that divided genetic information is kept intact during mitosis.

Cancer researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have discovered that ...

A new "toolkit" to repair damaged DNA that can lead to aging, cancer and motor neuron disease (MND) has been discovered by ...

I look forward to doing more cell-based research in the future", adds Mattiroli. Francesca Mattiroli is a group leader at the Hubrecht Institute since January 2018. Her group investigates chromatin ...

All living things have a blueprint provided by the DNA that is stored in every one of their cells. Yet the amount of DNA in ...

On the wall of Dian Yang's office hangs a painting of a "Pandora's box of cancer" being opened with a molecular key. From ...

When not undergoing replication, DNA molecules float freely within the cytoplasm of a cell. This makes them available to the accessory molecules that organize and repair DNA. However, when cells ...

This important work advances our understanding of DNA methylation and its consequences for susceptibility to DNA damage. This work presents evidence that DNA methylation can accentuate the genomic ...

A large-scale study links the presence of these tiny molecules to increased aggressiveness in malignant tumors ...

POLK expression in neurons and report an important observation that POLK exhibits an age-dependent change in subcellular localization, from the nucleus in young tissue to the cytoplasm in old tissue.