Introducing the 'human repairome,' a catalog of DNA 'scars' that may help define personalized cancer treatments

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up one of the new advances in basic and biomedical ...

Former NIH director Francis Collins cautions against 'tribal alliances,' encouraging Spokane to 'listen and love each other again'

Former NIH director Francis Collins addressed more than 1,000 people at Spokane's Fox Theater Thursday night, discussing his journeys in science and Christianity, along with a polarization and lack of ...
EMBO Press

Spatial mapping of DNA synthesis reveals dynamics and geometry of human replication nanostructures

Visualizing and quantifying DNA replication dynamics in living human cells remains challenging. Here, a new super-resolution ...
Medical Xpress

Novel gene editing technology enables selective destruction of cancer cell DNA using fewer targets

Researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNIST and the Center for Genomic Integrity at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have announced an advance in cancer gene therapy. Their ...
Quanta Magazine

Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex

New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been an early evolutionary ...
The Hindu

KSRTC to introduce one more double-decker service in Munnar

After the success of its first double-decker tourist bus service in Munnar, the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) is all set to launch another double-decker service in the hill station.
Phys.org

DNA's double act: How genetic copies stick together during replication

Before a cell divides, its DNA is replicated so that each daughter cell inherits the same genetic information. The two copies, known as "sister chromatids," are held together by a ring-shaped protein ...
eLife

A GCN1-independent activator of the kinase GCN2

The ALBORADA Drug Discovery Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom ...