Learn how researchers at St. Jude, led by Hai Dao, PhD, discovered the mechanisms behind PARP1-mediated DNA repair.

The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, deepens ...

A new PLOS Pathogens study shows that human cytomegalovirus induces and recruits the host chromatin remodeler MORC2 to viral ...

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At the scale of individual cells, the human body is constantly in motion. Every second, millions of cells divide, particularly in tissues such as the bone marrow, intestine and skin; neurons and heart ...

A highly anticipated book due out next week claims to settle one of the nation’s oldest and most divisive debates — whether Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings, an African American ...

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences, in partnership with other institutions, have pinpointed the exact location where DNA begins to unwind as cells initiate the duplication of their ...

DNA damage can lead to the development of diseases such as tumors. To counteract this, organisms have evolved various repair mechanisms targeting different types of damage. In eukaryotes, there are ...

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Every time a cell divides, it must copy its DNA with extraordinary precision. But this process is constantly challenged by DNA damage. Among the most dangerous lesions are DNA interstrand crosslinks ...

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