Ring-shaped extrachromosomal DNA is implicated in many cancers. Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to uncover their ...

A new method for mapping torsion provides insights into the ways that the genome responds to the torsion generated by RNA polymerase II.

Sunburns and aging skin are obvious effects of exposure to harmful UV rays, tobacco smoke and other carcinogens. But the effects aren't just skin deep. Inside the body, DNA is literally being torn ...

Researchers from Northwestern University have stumbled upon a previously unobserved function of a protein found in the cell ...

GSK is opening the door to a new era in urinary tract infection (UTI) treatment with its Blujepa, the first in a new class of ...

Ten years of substantial work by Université de Montréal immunologist Nathalie Labrecque's team at the Montreal Clinical ...

For the first time, scientists have identified promising drug candidates that bind irreversibly with a notoriously ...

In addition to exporting materials out of the nucleus, the protein, called Exportin-1 (also called Xpo1 or Crm1), seems to play a role in promoting gene transcription, the process that creates RNA ...

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is known to cause DNA damage, and while that damage may accumulate and eventually lead to diseases ...