The bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) may have an "on-off switch" that lets them pause and restart growth, according to a ...

To fully understand how genome integrity is maintained, David Cortez, Ph.D., and colleagues have generated a "catalog" of the proteins present at sites of DNA duplication (replication forks ...

More information: Sophie L Williams et al, Replication‐induced DNA secondary structures drive fork uncoupling and breakage, The EMBO Journal (2023). DOI: 10.15252/embj.2023114334 ...

Failures in DNA replication can lead to cancer, birth defects or other harm Video shows single pieces of double-helix DNA being copied Single-molecule view gives new insights into this process ...

A new study has found that the photosynthetic bacterium Synechococcus elongatus uses a circadian clock to precisely time DNA replication ... published online on May 10 in Proceedings of the ...

Knowledge of the structure of DNA enabled ... of 1 mM about 10 6 times per second). The rapid rates of molecular movement were thought initially to allow a process like DNA replication to occur ...

As previously mentioned, the location at which a DNA strand begins to unwind into two separate single strands is known as the origin of replication. As shown in Figure 1, when the double helix ...

The bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) may have an “on-off switch” that lets them pause and restart growth, according to a ...