Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a double-strand break involves the severing of both strands of the DNA double ...

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Thymine suffers more UV damage than uracil in lab tests, but its damage pathways could help explain its place in DNA.

Scientists may have found a clue to one of the biggest mysteries surrounding the origin of life: how fragile RNA molecules could gather and survive before cells existed. New research shows that RNA is ...

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown role for RNA in DNA repair. Their insights could lead to improved treatments for diseases like cancer and neurodegenerative disorders while changing ...

DNA and RNA methylation, initially thought to operate as distinct pathways, have been shown to interact closely, shifting our understanding of gene regulation. A team of researchers from the ...

A gene that is switched on in human brain cells has turned out to be a jumping gene that never fully gave up jumping. The gene, BC200, descends from a mobile piece of DNA, and researchers led by ...

The United States Food and Drug Administration has just approved the first-ever clinical trial that uses CRISPR-Cas13 RNA editing. Its aim is to treat an eye disease called wet age-related macular ...

The Indian Patent Office grants Patent No. 605714 to UoH and miBiome Therapeutics for an innovative high-throughput DNA/RNA ...

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint for these cells is essentially the same. Where do those differences come ...