DNA replication is a fundamental biological process that enables the accurate duplication of an organism’s genetic material.

The DNA packed inside every human cell contains instructions for life, written in billions of letters of genetic code. Every ...

Humans and baker's yeast have more in common than meets the eye, including an important mechanism that helps ensure DNA is copied correctly, reports a pair of studies. The findings visualize for ...

Their findings, which were published March 7 in Science, one of world’s leading scientific journals, not only reveal new details about how secondary DNA structures like G4s can impede DNA replication, ...

The intensity of each circle represents the number of foci (fluorescing regions) in a cell at each time point; higher numbers of PCNA and 53BP1 foci indicate greater levels of DNA replication and ...

Protein involved in balancing DNA replication and restarting found USP50 protein helps balance nuclease and helicase activity during critical processes Date: October 14, 2024 Source: University of ...

Professor Morris added: "The finding that cellular nucleases and helicases can stop replication of certain sections of DNA was a surprise – it shows that cells closely co-ordinate their toolkit ...

Drs Ursula A. Matulonis and Joyce F. Liu discuss targeting DNA damage and repair and replication stress in endometrial cancer.