Freeze–thaw cycles in an icy pond could let an enzyme copy RNA double helices indefinitely — suggesting one way in which ...

This landmark study describes the structure of the human RAD51 filament with a recombination intermediate called the displacement loop (D-loop). Using cryogenic structural, biochemical, and ...

Lenacapavir works to both treat and prevent HIV, making it a promising drug should it be approved by the FDA later this month.

Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab ...

Researchers have used a personalised base-editing gene therapy to successfully treat an infant with carbamoyl-phosphate ...

Scientists have may have successfully reproduced what's believed to be the first thing that ever lived on Planet ...

Small-molecule inhibitors of DNA repair pathways are being intensively ... for the treatment of heart failure and atrial arrhythmia, are potent inhibitors of DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair. Our ...

A new study in Nature Plants reveals that DNA double-strand break repair (DSBR) pathways help prevent gene transfer from ...

A unique feature of HR is that it repairs the damage to the DNA in a highly accurate way. In eukaryotic cells (those with a ...

Scientists have uncovered a critical role for rapid DNA repair in maintaining genome stability. A new study reveals that ...