This AI system can analyze up to one million DNA letters at once, predicting how tiny changes in noncoding regions trigger ...

Traditional models of DNA replication show the helicase enzyme moving along the DNA, separating the two strands of the double helix, with two polymerases located at the back where the DNA strand ...

This study reveals how SV40 helicase unwinds DNA, highlighting ATP hydrolysis's role in translocation and offering insights ...

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

News Release 6-Dec-2024 New model for replication of BKPyV virus, a major cause of kidney transplant failure There are no effective antivirals against BK polyomavirus in transplanted kidneys.

UC Davis researchers have confirmed a central idea about chromosome repair, more than a quarter century after it was first proposed. The finding is important to scientists who seek to understand DNA ...

In a new paper published in Nature Communications, an international team of researchers have found that the protein USP50 supports the DNA replication process by helping to decide the proper use ...

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

A team has unlocked a decades old mystery about how a critical cellular process called DNA replication is regulated.

But it's important to show the mechanisms of these helicases, because they're essential for DNA replication, and also possible drug targets." Yang Gao, Assistant Professor, Biosciences, Rice ...

Technology DNA nanobots can exponentially self-replicate Tiny machines made from strands of DNA can build copies of themselves, leading to exponential replication.