Humans and baker's yeast have more in common than meets the eye, including an important mechanism that helps ensure DNA is copied correctly, reports a pair of studies. The findings visualize for the ...

A recent study, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has unveiled the structure and mechanism of proteins that are highly overexpressed in various ...

Homologous recombination is a DNA repair mechanism that counteracts double-stranded breaks in DNA. Researchers at Kindai University have recently revealed how the Sae2 protein coordinates with the ...

Researchers studied an error mechanism in DNA replication, and noticed that some errors create palindromes that can fold into hairpin structures. The complexity of ...

Inactivation of mismatch repair (MMR) causes inherited and sporadic cancers 1. These tumours exhibit microsatellite instability (MSI) - length alterations within short repeats. MSI is a diagnostic and ...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have shown that DNA inflexibility, or rigidity, inside the nucleosome regulates the positioning of INO80. This highlights that the ...

In a recent review published in Mutation Research/Reviews in Mutation Research, researchers described potential mechanisms of coronaviruses that could lead to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) damage and ...