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

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 ...

The exonuclease-amplified assay can detect target DNA at concentrations as low as 10 pM when performed at 37 °C, which represents a significant improvement over the equivalent molecular beacon alone.

The bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) may have an "on-off switch" that lets them pause and restart growth, according to a new study from the University of Surrey and the University of Oxford.

We report the design and construction of a nanometer-sized tetrahedron from a single strand of DNA that is 286 nucleotides long ... of the tetrahedron can be easily scaled up through in vivo ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through ...

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

Cancer cells respond to stress with greater diversity. Drugs that affect DNA replication, or radiation that causes direct DNA damage, lead to ...