Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van ...

The binding of proteins to DNA is crucial for producing other proteins, ensuring that all the necessary processes in cells ...

DNA repair: A look inside the cell's 'repair café' Date: November 21, 2024 Source: Hubrecht Institute Summary: New research sheds light on how cells repair damaged DNA. For the first time, the ...

More information: Kim L. de Luca et al, Genome-wide profiling of DNA repair proteins in single cells, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54159-4 ...

Researchers from the Kind Group have gained new insights into the mechanism behind the spatial organization of DNA within the cells of early embryos. When an embryo is first formed after ...

As a graduate student in 2000, he spent six months trying to build a cell that could periodically alter a tiny bit of its own DNA. After six months of failure, he abandoned the project.

The cells of people who vape have been found to contain changes to DNA similar to those seen in the cells of smokers. These changes in cell DNA, known as epigenetic changes, were found in cells ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means ...

Conventional Cell-Based versus Cell-Free Gene Synthesis. Conventional cell-based gene synthesis requires a more complicated, time- and resource-intensive workflow to assemble, sequence, amplify, and ...

Researchers have been working on DNA-based data storage for decades, but a new template-based method inspired by our cells’ chemical processes is easy enough for even nonscientists to practice.