Researchers identify enzyme that prevents chromosome breaks during DNA copying

Researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) have identified how a key enzyme called ATR protects DNA from ...
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New mechanism to enhance precision in cancer drug development

Researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) have identified how a key enzyme called ATR protects DNA from ...
Tech Times

Wisconsin Researchers Map Bacterial DNA Repair Restart, Revealing New Antibiotic Targets

Structural biologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison today published cryo-electron microscopy structures of the complete bacterial DNA replication restart complex — a molecular machine that le ...
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Cancer’s most notorious protein MYC quietly repairs the DNA damage chemo inflicts — block that trick and treatment could hit tumor cells far harder

Chemotherapy drugs like doxorubicin and etoposide work by snapping a cancer cell’s DNA in two. The breaks are supposed to be ...

How hidden viruses wake up inside seaweed and pass on to future generations

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen have shown that giant viruses long thought to exist only as fleeting, free-living particles that can embed themselves permanently in the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Relaxation of Regularly Listening to Songs or Drawing Pictures May Actually Slow Cellular Aging, New Research Shows

According to a new study, people who are exposed to art on a weekly basis are about a year younger "biologically" than those ...
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Sleeping giants: How hidden viruses wake up inside seaweed, and pass on to future generations

Researchers discover that giant viruses can lie dormant within a multicellular host genome, reactivate on cue, and be inherited like a super-gene. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology ...
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Cancer’s most notorious protein MYC also quietly repairs tumor DNA damage — blocking the trick could make chemotherapy far deadlier to cells it targets

For decades, oncologists have watched a frustrating pattern repeat itself. Tumors fueled by the MYC protein, one of the most ...

The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet

Douglas Wilson has a modest proposal to improve American life: He wants to repeal the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women ...
eLife

Single-domain antibody inhibitors target the coiled coil arms of the Bacillus subtilis SMC complex

A screen using in vitro-selected synthetic nanobodies identified inhibitors of SMC protein function in bacterial cells, revealing a coiled coil region as a vital component of the chromosome-folding ...