Discoveries gleaned from ancient human DNA
Porsmose Man from the Neolithic period, found in 1947 in Porsmose, Denmark. Credit: Danish National Museum Four research articles published ...
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a mutation in mitochondrial DNA could protect against disease
The potential beneficial mutation against Parkinson's disease is a small mitochondrial protein that could play a key role in the ...
Scientists discover 13 distinct DNA mutation risk patterns with implications for cancer progression
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain Mutations, which continually occur in every cell of our body, are major contributors to cancer, aging ...
Team discovers relationship between timing of DNA replication and how genes fold into 3D structures inside the cell nucleus
RT appears gradually during preimplantation development of the mouse. AOverview of single-cell Repli-seq used to generate RT profiles from single ...
Researchers create 3D DNA nanorobots
Industrial three-dimensional DNA nanorobot. Credit: Feng Zhou Researchers at the Universities of New York and Ningbo, China, claim to have ...
DNA curtain technology enables real-time visualization of replication for new scientific insights
Scheme for direct visualization of the collision between Phi29 DNAp and R-loops. Credit: Nucleic acid research (2023). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad1101 A ...
DNA vaccines, glimmers of hope for eradicating HIV and liver cancer
Recent research on DNA vaccines shows significant advances in the treatment of HIV but also of hepatocellular carcinoma, one of ...
Where copying of DNA to RNA begins could determine whether cancer cells are receptive to treatment
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain In research published in Nature Structural and molecular biologyResearchers at the University of Birmingham have discovered ...
