In a leap forward for genetic and biomedical research, two scientists at the University of Missouri have developed a powerful ...

Women age differently from men when it comes to health—particularly in conditions like cardiovascular disease and ...

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 ...

The antimitotic properties of parthenolide, a natural compound with known anticancer activity, have been largely ...

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 ...

Several ORFs with apparently identical functions exist on both chromosomes which were probably acquired by lateral gene transfer. For example, glyA (encoding serine hydroxymethyl transferase ...